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What else can I help you with?
Can micro organisms make us so ill you can die?
Oh yes, lots of people have died from diseases caused by microorganisms, it's quite common. At the present time, malaria and tuberculosis are among the more lethal diseases. Smallpox was the worst, at one time, but it has been wiped out by the World Health Organization.
Has smallpox been wiped out?
Globally across the world, yes. Although, there could still be smallpox virus but frozen somewhere across the world.
What was a medical condition during Shakespeare's time?
People suffered from a lot of the same medical problems as people do now. In addition there were diseases which have been largely wiped out: plague, smallpox and syphilis were all big problems.
Why have smallpox and polio been the only successfully eradicated diseases?
Medicine has not been as successful as we would have imagined in that area. Those diseases are alive and well in other parts of the world. Smallpox is severe.
Is there a scapegoat for smallpox?
There is no known scapegoat for the disease smallpox, but it can be vaccinated with the pus from the 'spots' caused by the similar infection known as cowpox. As a result, smallpox was the first disease to have been permanently wiped off the face of the earth, and it is so far the only one.
If smallpox has been eliminated worldwide then why do they continue to cause 10's of millions of deaths?
Smallpox does not cause any deaths. Other preventable diseases cause deaths.
What is the oldest known disease?
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which causes tuberculosis, is one of the oldest known diseases and has been found in Egyptian mummies dating back to around 2400 BC.
What was Incas society like?
the society was in a dark cold age . the spanish had brought what they call smallpox and the incas had been wiped out by the spanish exansion. in other words the incas were defeated and their empire collapsed .
The only disease to be eradicated worldwide was?
diseases eradication is very difficult but pox (variole in french) has been eradicated
How can people avoid getting typhus?
There is a vaccine for typhus. Take it. Of course the rest of the world needs to raise its sanitation standards to those of the western world. Then a number of diseases that have been wiped out in the west will be wiped out in those places as well.
What is a few diseases eradicated by vaccines?
Measles, mulmps, rubella (MMR vaccine), smallpox, and polio have all been virtually eradicated by consistent vaccine use.
Is smallpox widespread in Australia?
No. There has been no smallpox in Australia since 1938.
