Assertion: smallpox | /r/HasProperty | declared eradicated
Facets:
value: in 1980
type: TEMPORAL
value: officially
type: MANNER
value: in 1979
type: TEMPORAL
value: through worldwide vaccination programs
type: CAUSE
value: globally
type: LOCATION
value: following worldwide vaccination programs
type: TEMPORAL
value: following a worldwide vaccination campaign
type: TEMPORAL
value: through a worldwide vaccination campaign
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: In 1967 the World Health Organization (WHO) began a global vaccination program against smallpox, and in 1980 the disease was officially declared eradicated .
text: Variola, or smallpox, which killed hundreds of millions before it was declared eradicated in 1980 through a worldwide vaccination campaign, is legally stored at only two locations in the United States and Russia.
text: Though almost all known stocks of the variola virus were destroyed once smallpox was proclaimed eradicated, the variola virus is stored at two locations for research purposes—one at the CDC in Atlanta, Georgia, and one in the Russian State Centre for Research on Virology and Biotechnology in the Russian Federation.﻿﻿
text: Once a dreaded killer of children that caused the deaths of millions of Native Americans after the arrival of European settlers in the Americas, smallpox was declared eradicated in 1980 following a worldwide vaccination campaign.
text: Smallpox was officially declared eradicated in 1979.
text: Smallpox was declared globally eradicated in 1980; however, there are concerns that the smallpox virus could be used for bioterrorism.
text: In 1980, the disease was declared eradicated following worldwide vaccination programs.
text: Although smallpox was declared eradicated in 1980 through worldwide vaccination programs, the U.S. government is taking measures today to deal with the highly contagious and potentially fatal disease in case of the instance in which it be used as a bioterrorist weapon.
text: Population density since smallpox was declared eradicated in 1980 has grown exponentially, which makes it hard to predict how fast the variola virus would spread in modern times.
text: Smallpox was officially declared eradicated in 1980 and is the first disease to have been fought on a global scale.
text: Smallpox was officially declared eradicated in 1979.
text: Since there has been no case of smallpox, worldwide, reported in the past 25+ years, it has been declared eradicated (i.e. extinct).
text: Since 1980, when the disease was declared eradicated,the only legal stocks of the smallpox virus have been held in two repositories,the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Vector ResearchCenter in Koltsovo, Siberia.
text: Smallpox, a pox disease that had severely afflicted humans since at least the 17th century, was declared eradicated in 1979.
text: Smallpox was about to be declared eradicated, people knew that was about to happen," said Prof Alasdair Geddes, who was a consultant in infectious disease at East Birmingham Hospital at the time of the outbreak.