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Review
. 2003 Winter;31(4):580-9.
doi: 10.1111/j.1748-720x.2003.tb00125.x.

"The king of terrors" revisited: the smallpox vaccination campaign and its lessons for future biopreparedness

Cynthia P Schneider  1 , Michael D McDonald
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Review

"The king of terrors" revisited: the smallpox vaccination campaign and its lessons for future biopreparedness

Cynthia P Schneider et al. J Law Med Ethics. 2003 Winter.
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References

    1. John Adams referred to smallpox as the “King of Terrors.” McCullough D., John Adams ( New York : Simon and Shuster, 2000): at 141.
    1. Koplow D.A., Smallpox: the Fight to Eradicate a Global Scourge ( Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003): at 10, citing T.B. Macaulay.
    1. McCullough, supra note 1, at 142–43.
    1. Koplow, supra note 2, at 11–13. On Cuitlahuac, see J. Enriquez, C. Tang Yeh, and R. Martinez, “SARS, Smallpox, and Business Unusual,” Harvard Business School Working Paper (draft), July 2003: at 7.
    1. Koplow, supra note 2, at 13–14.

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