Smallpox

Edward Jenner made a vaccination out of pus from one of the blisters of a person with smallpox

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It turns out that smallpox actually is a nickname. It is used to refer to the virus, Variola, which may appear as V. major or V. minor. You'll find a link below if you wish to do some review of this unique-to-human infectious disease. It's been with us a long, long time, so why not take a couple of minutes to at least read the first couple of paragraphs about this not-so-friendly visitor upon us?

Smallpox no longer exists in most MEDC's in the UN

The devil is in the details of exactly what you are referring to here. Do you mean: Can a person who has been vaccinated against smallpox then catch it at a later date, and while not getting sick from it, transmit it to others? Ans: In general, no. The vaccination not only keeps you healthy, but stops the virus in your body. Can a person who has recently been vaccinated against smallpox pass on smallpox to someone else? Ans: No, we don't use weakened variola virus (smallpox virus) to inoculate people. Can a person who has been recently vaccinated against smallpox using the standard live vaccinia virus type vaccine pass on a vaccinia virus infection to other people? Ans: Yes! And, it can be dangerous. That's why people should be careful with their fresh smallpox vaccination wounds. Can a person who has been recently vaccinated with the newest MVA-type smallpox vaccinations pass on a vaccinia infection on to others? Ans: No. At least theoretically not. But, it's so new, we can't say for absolute certain.

Janet Parker, a British medical photographer, died of smallpox in 1978, ten months after the disease was eradicated in the wild, when a researcher at the laboratory Parker worked at accidentally released some virus into the air of the building. She is believed to be the last smallpox fatality in history.

Well, I think it is the case that cowpox is just a lesser, bovine version of smallpox. Milk maids would get cowpox simply because they were exposed to cattle constantly, much more than the average person, who was more likely to get smallpox than cowcox.

A scientist called Edward Jenner observed that milk maids, who often got cowpox, never seemed to get smallpox. This was because milk maids would develop immunity to cowpox (and therefore smallpox) once they had fallen ill and recovered from cowpox. He then tested this theory on a young boy. He did this by injecting cowpox into the boy's blood stream; the boy then fell ill with cowpox. After the boy recovered from cowpox, the scientist then injected him with the life-threatening disease smallpox. The result proved his theory right; the injection of smallpox into the boy's bloodstream had had no effect on him, because his body had developed immunity to the disease.

If you wish to learn more about vaccination and immunities, then research antibodies, antigens and vaccination and the way in which they all work.

Small Pox is an infectious disease, so you'd think there would be a high risk, but, a vaccination for Small Pox was created and now Small Pox has been almost 100% eradicated except for a few chemical labs that dot the world.

There is no effective medicine. A vaccine is used to prevent it. Jenner made the first ever vaccine for smallpox!

In October 1562 Elizabeth I caught smallpox, but survived it.

94% of the Inca Population

They had no immunity. It was an old world disease.

It was responsible for between 300 and 500 million deaths in the 20th century and during European exploration many people died of it including Native Americans. It is thought that the fatality case rates for Native Americans was between 80 and 90%.

Smallpox is a serious, contagious, and sometimes fatal infectious disease. There is no specific treatment for smallpox disease, and the only prevention is vaccination. The name smallpox is derived from the Latin word for "spotted" and refers to the raised bumps that appear on the face and body of an infected person. There are two clinical forms of smallpox. Variola major is the severe and most common form of smallpox, with a more extensive rash and higher fever. There are four types of variola major smallpox: ordinary (the most frequent type, accounting for 90% or more of cases); modified (mild and occurring in previously vaccinated persons); flat; and hemorrhagic (both rare and very severe). Historically, variola major has an overall fatality rate of about 30%; however, flat and hemorrhagic smallpox usually are fatal. Variola minor is a less common presentation of smallpox, and a much less severe disease, with death rates historically of 1% or less. Smallpox outbreaks have occurred from time to time for thousands of years, but the disease is now eradicated after a successful worldwide vaccination program. The last case of smallpox in the United States was in 1949. The last naturally occurring case in the world was in Somalia in 1977. After the disease was eliminated from the world, routine vaccination against smallpox among the general public was stopped because it was no longer necessary for prevention.

There is no actual cure for Smallpox. It was eradicated in 1979, so no one gets it anymore. However, many scientists believe that if an exposed person was vaccinated within a certain time frame (4 days, I think) they would not break out with the disease.

This is at present an academic issue because smallpox has been eradicated and is not expected to return, unless it is released from some biological weapons stockpile (which would be an immense tragedy, were it to happen). But in the past, there were lots of people who did survive smallpox. Historically, the disease had a roughly 50% mortality rate. Half the patients would die, half would live. The disease is very hard for the immune system to attack because it has a method of inducing host cells to grow tubes reaching to other cells, through which the virus can travel without being exposed to the blood and the while blood cells which would attack it. However, the human immune system is quite good at what it does, and in some cases can even overcome smallpox. The only way you can help out your immune system is by getting vaccinated in advance. Once you actually have the disease, vaccination can no longer help. So, if you survive smallpox it will be due to a cellular level response, rather than a conscious level response. There is not much you can do about it. But again, you are not going to get smallpox, the disease has been eradicated.

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All parts of the skin is affected in Chickenpox. Although most of them are in the trunk area of the patient. But the lesions can be everywhere.

Small pox and chicken pox are to different things! Please do not confuse them, chicken pox are a minor virous that people today get. Small pox on the other hand is a very dangerous thing that may led to death if not treated. It's not as dangerous and does not effect people like it did...but they are not the same thing

i think that's a joke or somethin. no body calls small pox chicken pox

i dont know coz the internet wont tell me but this website is a con coz a someone added this

The smallpox vaccine is an injection to prevent one from contracting smallpox. It has been used to help the body to develop immunity against the disease.

The people did not have immunity against the disease

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