(1) Both anthrax and smallpox vaccines have been in use for a long time, but there are few other similarities between them.(2) It is possible that one or both of these pandemics were due to smallpox , or even measles.(3) For 130 years or more after Jenner introduced a vaccine for smallpox this was the only vaccine in general use.(4) Disease was rampant and smallpox , typhus, typhoid and dysentery made death familiar.(5) Anthrax just isn't the public health disaster that smallpox has the potential to be.(6) The most likely diagnosis was thought to be a severe viral infection - but not smallpox .(7) The process induced cowpox, a mild viral disease that conferred immunity to smallpox .(8) Polio will be the second disease after smallpox to be eradicated.(9) This has been illustrated by the elimination of other viral infections such as smallpox .(10) There now seems a real prospect that, like smallpox , polio may be eradicated entirely from the world.(11) Of the biological weapons, anthrax and smallpox are the most feared.(12) There have been few articles on the risks of smallpox or of the vaccine in the popular media.(13) Malnutrition was rife, as were diseases such as tuberculosis and smallpox .(14) Terrorists can bring back diseases like smallpox and they can even create their own.(15) Hahnemann, the founder of homoeopathy, was a supporter of smallpox vaccination.(16) Although thousands of Barbadians died from yellow fever and smallpox , Quakers were particularly hard hit.