Smallpox demon (Japanese: 疱瘡神, Hōsōkami) or smallpox devil is a demon which was believed to be responsible for causing smallpox in medieval Japan. In those days, people tried to appease the smallpox demon by assuaging his anger, or they tried to attack the demon since they had no other effective treatment for smallpox.
Minamoto no Tametomo defeats a smallpox devil from Yoshitoshi's 36 drawings of YokaiA smallpox demon enshrined
Smallpoxdemon (Japanese: 疱瘡神, Hōsōkami) or smallpox devil is a demon which was believed to be responsible for causing smallpox in medieval Japan. In...
Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus. The last naturally...
The Demon in the Freezer is a 2002 nonfiction book on the biological weapon agents smallpox and anthrax and how the American government develops defensive...
the 1754 Hōreki River incident. Minamoto no Tametomo chasing away smallpoxdemons, in an 1890 print by Yoshitoshi Tametomo and Oniyashi on a beach Minamoto...
The smallpox virus retention debate has been going on among scientists and health officials since the smallpox virus was declared eradicated by the World...
fight the smallpox divinity/demon. All but one of the puppets drowned and grand general who remained managed to defeat the smallpoxdemon. The puppets...
naturally occurring Variola major smallpox, the more deadly variety of the disease. Rahima Banu's case of smallpox at three years old was reported to...
The following is a list of Akuma (demons), Yūrei (ghosts), Yōkai (spirits), Kami and other legendary creatures that are notable in Japanese folklore and...
her real form as Durga, she killed many demons that were sent by Kaalkeya. A demon named Jvarasura, the demon of fever, started spreading incurable diseases...
raped by a doctor named Jotaro Nagao, who is unknowingly infected with smallpox. During the assault, he discovers that Sadako has testicular feminization...
credited with "devising the global strategy that led to the eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s". From May 1977 to 1983, Foege served as the Director...
of Smallpox Lord of Smallpox of the East: Yu Da Lord of Smallpox of the West: Yu Zhao Lord of Smallpox of the South: Yu Guang LordYu De of Smallpox of...
against Native Americans during the colonization of the Americas. When smallpox swept the northern plains of the U.S. in 1837, the U.S. Secretary of War...
featuring eight hands with various attributes. One is holding the head of the demon king Daruka, another a sickle-shaped sword, next an anklet, another a bell...
might not immediately stop an opposing force. Some biological agents (smallpox, pneumonic plague) have the capability of person-to-person transmission...
for several hours to several days. Some bioterrorism agents, like the smallpox virus, can be spread from person to person and some, like anthrax, cannot...
microbiologist and toxicologist Lisa Hensley, microbiologist; Ebola and smallpox expert William C. Patrick III, microbiologist, former bioweaponeer and...
and other hemorrhagic diseases, as well as Nipah virus. Variola virus (smallpox) is an agent that is worked with at BSL-4 despite the existence of a vaccine...
Siberia: A woman in a shamanist family married the smallpox-spirit: she "became a wife of the Smallpox in her dream." Buryat of Siberia: In shamanic dreams...
17 "Death of a Disease" June 6, 1976 (1976-06-06) 0317 As late as 1967, smallpox struck as many as 15 million people in 43 countries and killed an estimated...
wife, Geillis confesses and exonerates Claire. Claire recognises from the smallpox vaccine scar on Geillis's shoulder that she too is from the future; 1968...
Meschede's St. Walburga Hospital was the site of a smallpox outbreak, as described in the book The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston.[citation needed]...
of itinerant merchants, a provider of wealth, and a protector against smallpox. Parkham Yaksha, detail of the "Hellenistic" drapery. 150 BCE A similar...
calamities like smallpox and other epidemic diseases. The ritual themes generally revolve around the triumph of Bhadrakali over the demon Darika and other...
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