Basically, what they're working on here is a smallpox drug. As you know, the vaccine does have a lot of side effects. And this small, tiny basically New York-based company, with its labs out in Oregon, is working on this drug, ... And they just recently announced a contract from the Army -- 1.6 million. It's obviously speculative and somewhere along the line the company is going to have to raise money.
Quotes about smallpox (14 Quotes)
After a 20-year study, Dr. Kempe recommends abolishing smallpox vaccination. Since 1948 there have been no deaths from smallpox in the United States. In the same period more than 300 persons have died fromsmallpox vaccinations, including vaccine-induced encephalitis.
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.
The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities smallpox was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie.
For example, we found that physicians really don't do a good job being able to distinguish the clinical markers of the rash for chickenpox and smallpox, ... They also had problems with distinguishing a patient's presenting with an attack of botulism from other illnesses.
This will bolster our emergency smallpox stockpile, provide an extra layer of protection for all Americans in the event of a smallpox outbreak and strengthen our safety net in the event of a biological attack,
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.
While there's concern, we do not have any concern that a smallpox attack is imminent.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
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.