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Smallpox
Smallpox is a serious, contagious, and sometimes fatal disease caused by the variola virus.
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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.
Did the North American smallpox outbreak of 1775 change modern medicine?
Not sure, but it sure killed a lot of Native Peoples, as similar outbreaks in 1715 & 1755 did in what is now So. Africa. From Wikipedia: "Edward Anthony Jenner, FRS (17 May 1749 - 26 January 1823) was an English physician and scientist from Berkeley, Gloucestershire, who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine.[1] He is often called "the father of immunology", and his work is said to have "saved more lives than the work of any other man".
Immunology is what I think best fits the question's "modern medicine". A full answer has to include, at least, Pasteur (rabies vaccine, bacterial role in infection), Lord Lister and Semmelweiss ("Hey, Docs, sterilize your hands between patient exams!" Now again an admonition for doctors, nurses, and, as I have just learned, whole body disinfection prior to surgery that will breach the skin, for patients.
How old was Joseph Stalin when he had smallpox?
when Joseph Stalin was seven years old he got diagnosed with small pox the disease left his face with scars and left his arm totally deformed.
They did.
It's simply omited in the hate propaganda.
Smallpox was eradicated through the effective Intensified Smallpox Eradication Programme, initiated by the World Health Organization. On 26 July 1978, WHO announced the eradication of the smallpox strain Variola Minor. The more deadly strain, Variola Major, had been eradicated several years earlier, in 1975. There remains a stockpile of the virus in storage in 600 frozen vials in Atlanta and Russia. This has been deemed necessary, in case further vaccines are required in the future. This stockpile was supposed to be destroyed on 31 December 1993, but on 23 December 1993, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia reversed their decision, announcing that the remaining virus stockpile would not be destroyed, so as to enable scientists to continue studying the disease.
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Does smallpox form a provirus?
No. The are different from other pox viruses in that they replicate in the cytoplasm and not the nucleus.
Why did smallpox kill so many Cherokees in such a short time?
Cherokee, like many other Native American's were susceptible to a variety of diseases carried by people from Europe; the unclean living standards practiced by that society is rife for disease. There has been documented proof that the European Settlers (White Americans) Intentionally spread the most fatal forms of smallpox among the Cherokee by giving them blankets from smallpox hospitals. This fatal form kills in 6 to 16 days with a 90% fatality rate.
Why where Native Americans helpless to smallpox?
ina nutshell: lack of proper antibodies in their mother's milk(colstrum) and/or genetic immunitity issues ...
europeans had centuries of exposure to be plagued with the pox and those susceptible were 'Darwin-ed' out by selective 'surviving' (hence the eruo-mother's milk antibodies slant) ... the native Americans got hit with it all at once and it spread like wildfire through a population never exposed to it before and hence devoid of any kind of immunities to it.
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from WIKI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States#Initial_impacts
European settlers brought diseases against which the Native Americans had no natural immunity. Chicken pox and measles, though common and rarely fatal among Europeans, often proved deadly to Native Americans. Smallpox, always a terrible disease, proved particularly deadly to Native American populations.[8] Epidemics often immediately followed European exploration, sometimes destroying entire villages. While precise figures are difficult to arrive at, some historians estimate that up to 80% of some Native populations died due to European diseases.[9]
In 1617-1619 smallpox wiped out 90% of the Massachusetts Bay Indians. As it had done elsewhere, the virus wiped out entire population groups of Native Americans. It reached Mohawks in 1634,[10] the Lake Ontario in 1636, and the lands of the Iroquois by 1679. During the 1770s, smallpox killed at least 30% of the West Coast Native Americans.[11][12] Smallpox epidemics in 1780-1782 and 1837 brought devastation and drastic depopulation among the Plain Indians.[13][14]
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8. ^ Native American History and Cultures, http://www.meredith.edu/nativeam/setribes.htm Susan Squires and John Kincheloe, syllabus for HIS 943A, Meredith College, 2005, accessed September 19, 2006
9. ^ Smallpox epidemic ravages Native Americans on the northwest coast of North America in the 1770s.
10. ^ Dutch Children's Disease Kills Thousands of Mohawks
11. ^ Smallpox
12. ^ American Indian Epidemics
13. ^ The first smallpox epidemic on the Canadian Plains: In the fur-traders' words
14. ^ Mountain Man Plain Indian Fur Trade
Did Queen Elizabeth I have smallpox?
Yes, according to CBBC Horrible Histories, she did have smallpox. See the CBBC Horrible Histories website to see more :)
Was smallpox around in the 1800s?
Yes, small pox was around in the 1800's. It is assumed to have been eradicated from the general circulation by the 1900's and exists only in labs for use in research and biological warfare as a containerized weapon of mass destruction.
There is debate as to whether the lab stockpile should be destroyed completely to eradicate the disease, but others say that if it is destroyed and the disease somehow pops up again, we won't have the benefit of ongoing research that would help us deal with another outbreak. Also it would be hard to ensure that all countries would actually destroy it and not save it for use as a weapon.
How did the people from Chinese use the smallpox vaccine long time ago?
During the Tang and Song Dynasties in ancient China, physicians practiced the smallpox vaccine throught the inocculation method.
The first known cases of smallpox go back to 1350 BC and the disease has been known for a very long time. Dr. Campbell identified how smallpox is spread. Edward Jenner is credited with developing the smallpox vaccine in 1796.
What does the smallpox vaccine have to do with cows?
The smallpox vaccine was developed by Edward Jenner, an English physician. He noticed that dairywomen who had caught cowpox - a related disease - did not catch smallpox. So he inoculated people with weakened cowpox, their bodies built up the antibodies to cowpox which then also protected them against smallpox.
Cowpox is known as Variolae Vaccinae (vacca = cow in Latin) and hence the name.
Did Cornwallis send men with chickenpox into the American lines to make them sick?
No, Cornwallis sent men with smallpox into American lines to make the sick, during the battle of Yorktown.
How does one become immune to smallpox?
There are quite a few ways to become immune to smallpox. One way is that you can be infected with the disease Cowpox. Which is not deadly in anyway but is a disease nobody wants to have. Another way is, you can infect your self with smallpox and give yourself a mild case of it. It is proven that once you had smallpox and you survived you never get it again, by infecting yourself mildly you can become immune to it.
Correction mild case of smallpox is cowpox if u become infected with cowpox u become immune to smallpox and cowpox for the rest of your life it is like a vaccination but instead of being shot with it u actually become sick but once you get over it your completely immune to it or any other more serious case of the illness.
What is 'consume their own smoke'relating to steam carriages during the 1860s?
Answer Steam engines would have water heated in large tanks and then the steam that was created was harnessed and used to power the engine. I believe this is what this means by "consuming their own smoke." Hope this helps.
No one actually knows! Thousands of people died! You can't guess, cause every second people are dieing in Canada and other places.......I don't want people to die! But it is like that.
Can you get smallpox more than once?
No. After you get a disease like smallpox, your body is able to develop permanent defenses against it. This makes you "Immune" to the disease. This is the principle on which vaccines work.
When was smallpox first found in Australia?
Smallpox first appeared in Australia in 1789. It is believed to have killed over half of the Aboriginal population in the Sydney area.
direct contact with sick person or with infected blankets etc
When was the worst case of smallpox?
It was in 1875 when a man of Oliver Winston got it on his whole body claiming his life within 2 days. It was in 1875 when a man of Oliver Winston got it on his whole body claiming his life within 2 days.
- 90%
The smallpox virus is said to have emerged about 10 thousand years BC. The virus' genes suggest that it was once a rodent virus that made its trans-species jump into humans in one of the early agricultural river valleys. Smallpox is thought to have rooted itself early in people living in the river valleys of China. The first clear description of smallpox (by the great Chinese medical doctor Ko Hung) appeared in a Chinese medical text in the fourth century AD. The disease had such a profound effect on human culture that there were deities created in its honor. The Chinese worshiped a goddess of smallpox named T'ou Shen Niang-Niang, who could cure the disease. Like the Chinese with their smallpox goddess, the Hindu religion also has a goddess of smallpox, named Shitala Ma. Mankind has dealt with smallpox throughout our historical record, affecting populations around the globe. The role of this one disease in mankind's history is profound. World history could have been greatly changed had smallpox not been a part of it. Smallpox decimated the Ethiopian soldiers in the Elephant war in Mecca 568 AD. Introduced by slaves carried by Spanish explorers in 1502, smallpox swept through the native populations of the Western Hemisphere, exacting a heavy toll on Amerindian tribes and resulted in the collapse of both the Aztec and Incan empires, enabling European colonization. In 1738, smallpox killed half the Cherokee Indian population. At the end of the 18th century in Europe, an estimated 400 thousand people were dying annually from smallpox.
