Assertion: smallpox | /r/HasProperty | endemic
Facets:
value: to asia
type: LOCATION
value: in europe
type: LOCATION
value: for centuries
type: TEMPORAL
value: throughout the world
type: LOCATION
value: in africa
type: LOCATION
value: in the middle east
type: LOCATION
value: in england
type: LOCATION
value: almost everywhere
type: LOCATION
value: at the end of the 1960s
type: TEMPORAL
value: to arabia
type: LOCATION
value: in south
type: LOCATION
value: except in australia
type: OTHER
value: in brazil
type: LOCATION
value: by 1966
type: TEMPORAL
value: no longer
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: By the beginning of the 20th century, smallpox was no longer endemic in several countries of continental Europe.
text: Smallpox was both endemic year in and year out, in Europe, and it was also epidemic sporadically every generation or so.
text: Smallpox was an endemic disease that was ever-present, and so it was considered almost normal, especially because it targeted infants and children, as a rule; although, as I’ve said, it did lead sporadically to broader epidemics.
text: By the mid-18th century, smallpox was a major endemic disease everywhere in the world except in Australia and in small islands untouched by outside exploration.
text: Variola major was the predominant endemic strain throughout the world, and by the end of the 18th century, it was responsible for approximately 400,000 deaths a year in Europe.
text: A Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication chaired by Frank Fenner examined the evidence from, and visited where necessary, all countries where smallpox had been endemic.
text: Smallpox was endemic to Europe, Asia and Arabia for centuries, a persistent menace that killed three out of ten people it infected and left the rest with pockmarked scars.
text: At the end of the 1960s, smallpox was still endemic in Africa and Asia.
text: By 1966, it was endemic only in Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and Brazil.
text: In 1720, inoculation had been a folk practice in many parts of the world for hundreds of years, but smallpox was still endemic almost everywhere.
text: That’s because smallpox was endemic in England, meaning that a high percentage of British troops had already contracted the disease as children and now carried lifelong immunity.
text: A Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication chaired by Frank Fenner examined the evidence from, and visited where necessary, all countries where smallpox had been endemic.