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Urban inoculation and the decline of smallpox mortality in eighteenth‐century cities—a reply to Razzell

Smallpox was probably the single most lethal disease in eighteenth‐century Britain but was reduced to a minor cause of death by the mid‐nineteenth century due to vaccination programmes post‐1798. While the success of vaccination is unquestionable, it remains disputed to what extent the prophylactic...

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Autores principales: Davenport, Romola J., Boulton, Jeremy, Schwarz, Leonard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4737216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26900169
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12112