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An American Indian short story fiction piece: Shy Wolf's death.

emptychair @innertalks (23741) • Australia 8 May 20

Shy Wolf, the American Indian medicine man of the Sioux tribe, was dying, and he asked one of his fellow braves to brave a run over to a neighbouring tribe, that the medicine man there, might come to help him get over this...

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The man who should really have got the credit for innoculation

John Welford @indexer (4852) • Leicester, England 19 Aug 19

These are the gravestones of Benjamin Jesty and his wife Elizabeth, in the churchyard at Worth Matravers, Dorset. The credit for innoculation (or vaccination), which is the use of a small quantity of disease cells to encourage...

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May 14 - Let's discuss what happened today

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222534) • United States 13 May 19

Dance Like a Chicken Day 1796 - Edward Jenner administered the first smallpox innoculation. 1878 - The last witchcraft trial was held in the United States. 1984 - Mark Zuckerberg is born - founder of Facebook. 1998 - Frank...

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The deadliest disease

s sivasubrahmanyam @shivamani10 (11035) • Hyderabad, India 25 Apr 16

Do you know what this deadliest disease is? Do you know what a necklace sized scar on the upper left arm should indicate? This is a sign that stamps one Smallpox free. The W.H.O. made a relentless battle against this deadliest...

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What are chicken pox?

crystallight1l @crystallight1l (347) • Canada 3 Nov 09

Have you had them? what about small pox :D

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Was smallpox was erradicated 40 years ago or are there still case discovered?

winterose @winterose (39887) • Canada 2 Apr 08

vast majority of Scottish people interviewed in the streets of Edinburgh are unaware of one of the greatest achievements of medical science -- the eradication of smallpox from the world over 40 years ago. A recent poll has...

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