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If smallpox has been eliminated worldwide then why do they continue to cause 10's of millions of deaths?
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∙ 14y ago
Smallpox does not cause any deaths. Other preventable diseases cause deaths.
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How many people worldwide was infected by smallpox?
Just the once. After that, they either get immunity from it, or die from it.
Why was smallpox eliminated?
In the 20th century alone between 500 and 800 million people died of smallpox. That is why smallpox was eliminated.
Cure for smallpox?
No cure, it is viral. However vaccination has eliminated it.
How can a person get smallpox?
Smallpox was spread by inhaling the airborne virus, by direct contact with infected persons, and in some cases, by the virus being on bedding. After a program of vaccinations, the World Health Organization has announced that smallpox has been eliminated- first disease ever eliminated. Nobody gets it now. Roosters and chickens do not carry smallpox- it was a humans only disease.
What disease killed millions of native americans?
smallpox
Name a disease that has been eradicated worldwide because of immunisation programmes?
Smallpox
What disease caused millions of native americsns to die?
smallpox infected blankets
What are the laws regarding reporting a person with smallpox in Tennessee?
How do you know it is smallpox? That disease has been eliminated for years. Check with your local health department or state health dept. Do not accuse anybody until you know it is really smallpox or you can get sued for a lot of things.
How can people get small pox?
These days, smallpox exists only in a few dedicated research laboratories in the United States and Russia, and a couple of other places. "In the wild", smallpox is extinct, the first major worldwide disease to be eliminated. Before about 1900, smallpox could be easily transmitted by casual contact; breathing the same air, sharing the same blankets, or by touch. It was wildly virulent and quite deadly to its victims. In pre-1400s Europe, smallpox was a serious disease, but most people had developed at least a little resistance because of repeated contact. When Europeans began to travel the world, smallpox traveled with them. Smallpox had never existed in the Americas or in much of Asia, and the arrival of smallpox was deadly to large numbers of people, who had no resistance to it.
How was the smallpox a worldwide elimination of death during World War 2?
An exact figure of how many people contracted smallpox worldwide and even in Manchuria where biological warfare was used by the Japanese and supposedly the Russians used is unavailable. Smallpox had been mostly eradicated in Europe and the North America before World War 2.
The only disease to be eradicated worldwide was?
diseases eradication is very difficult but pox (variole in french) has been eradicated
How has smallpox been eliminated?
The small pox is technically considered eradicated, but cultures are kept in labs in the United States and Russia for observation and studying. Although cultures are kept in labs (and those cultures are the real small pox), it is technically considered eradicated.
