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There is a circumstantial evidence that Iraq, North Korea and Russia have undeclared stocks of smallpox, ... Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox.

- Jonathan Tucker

The (federal administration) acted with great speed around anthrax and smallpox and other hypothetical war agents, but has neglected the most obvious threat, ... The Monster At Our Door '“ The Global Threat of Avian Flu.

- Mike Davis

I doubt if the average Englishman felt himself as much oppressed by Charles I as by the plague; or if any colonial American was as much in dread of taxation without representation as of smallpox. And it may reasonably be contended that Walter Reed and William Crawford Gorgas brought to man freedom in a more happy sense and in a larger measure than any military or political leader.

- Mark Sullivan

Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases.

- Ali Aoun
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Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World`s Indian population.

- Ali Aoun
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It`s a place people would go to even if the cook had just died of smallpox in the kitchen.

- Azim Premji

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox

- English Proverb