Word: smallpox
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...taking off our shoes, at work we're flashing our badges, and at home we're making sure the duct tape is where we can find it in the dark. But these rituals seem inadequate for coping with some truly terrifying scenarios: "dirty bombs" slipped into the country, a smallpox outbreak. Well, there's help on the way. A variety of companies and laboratories, some fostered by Washington, are rushing to produce technologies that address our deepest post-9/11 fears. Many will come on line in the next year or two. The effort recalls the last time we launched...
BIOTERRORISM This is the area where our defenses most need a quick fix. Smallpox vaccines haven't improved much since the 1960s. Until 9/11, few drug companies felt the economic impetus to develop costly antidotes to all-but-conquered infections and ailments. Viagra was a sexier sell. Smallpox was considered to be a "market you hope will never exist," says Alan Goldhammer of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America...
...never recorded in church for fear of bigamy charges, but it prospers. While her husband nurtures his publications, she runs their store, selling everything from writing materials to tea and coffee to a well-known homemade ointment for "the itch." They had two children, a boy who died of smallpox at age 5 and a girl Sarah, known as Sally, who outlived both her parents...
...Number of civilian health workers that federal officials said should be vaccinated for smallpox...
...outbreak of monkeypox in the Midwest, the first ever to hit the western hemisphere, left more than threescore sick. A far less lethal relative of the smallpox virus, monkeypox has hitherto been endemic only in Africa. So it came as little surprise when health authorities traced the outbreak to 28 prairie dogs in Milwaukee, Wis., destined to become household pets, that had come into contact with an infected giant Gambian pouched rat while in transit with a distributor. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson announced an embargo on the importation of all rodents from Africa...