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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.


Woody Allen


#had #i #love #over #smallpox

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.


Jared Diamond


#another #diseases #estimated #europeans #far

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.


William S. Burroughs


#because #been #business #caused #folks

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.


Jimmy Carter


#carter #center #disease #earth #elimination

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.


Jared Diamond


#americas #animal #camels #cattle #could

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.


Gustave Flaubert


#been #catch #completely #constitution #had

I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.


Edward Jenner


#comes #day #hope #human #human beings

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.


John Green


#augustus-waters #beautiful #cancer #cowpox #death






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