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  • CDC: Variola major (Smallpox) - presents a fact sheet and images.
  • Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies: Smallpox - facts about the disease, and the possibilities of its use as a biological weapon.
  • Demon In the Freezer, The - 1999 New Yorker article by Richard Preston. Examines the threat of the officially eradicated disease being used as a bioterrorist weapon.
  • Edward Jenner - Exhibit marking his first experimental vaccination against the disease.
  • First Contact: Smallpox - Essay about the disease, its epidemics and transmission.
  • LearnWell Online Course - A short course for nursing continuing education on smallpox.
  • MEDLINEplus: Smallpox - news, facts, pictures, and links relating to the disease.
  • Smallpox - Information about history, pathology, treatment, prevention, eradication with references.
  • Smallpox (Variola) - FAQs from the Utah Department of Health.
  • Smallpox as a Biological Weapon: Medical and Public Health Management - June 1999 article from JAMA.
  • Smallpox Information Center - A focused selection of information to help the general public understand the issues with this disease.
  • Smallpox: Clinical and Epidemiologic Features - Describes in detail the disease characteristics.
  • Smallpox: Homepage - guide to the disease, including history, photographs, pathology, treatment, prevention, and notes on the possibility of bioterrorist use.
  • Smallpox: Inoculation Vaccination Eradication - online exhibit from the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. Includes history, pictures, and notes on the discovery of the first smallpox vaccination.
  • The Demon in the Freezer - The story of how smallpox, a disease of officially eradicated became the biggest bioterrorist threat we now face.
  • Triumph over the Most Terrible of the Ministers of Death - history of small pox from the American College of Physicians.
  • US Smallpox Hospital - Minton House - about the Civil War hospital that housed Union soldiers infected with smallpox.

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