Smallpox

40% of the victims died

There were no antibiotics nor vaccines at the time. The only thing would be what are called supportive measures such as keeping warm and drinking fluids. The average life expectancy was 25-35. Many children did not live to see age five.

These days there is no smallpox in this world. But hundered years ago, small pox epidemics were not at all common. People used to be very afraid of coming near someone suffering from small pox since they were afraid of catching the disease. However, there was one group of people who did not have this fear. The people would provide nursing care for the victims of small pox. These people were Milkmaids. One day a famous physician named Edward Jenner realized that the Milkman who earlier suffered from cowpox did not catch small pox during epidemics. Cowpox is a very mild disease. So he thought that if the virus of cow pox is injected into the person, he will not suffer from Small Pox. So he started giving the injections of cow pox to people as a vaccine.

Cow pox is a very mild disease as compared to Small Pox.

You know that any vaccine is prepared by injecting the weakened form of virus of any particular disease into the person. E.g - For the vaccine of Chicken Pox. The virus of Chicken pox is weakened and injeted into the body of person. So, he does not have any chances of getting chicken pox in future because when the weakened form of virus of chicken pox is injected into our body our immune system is able to fight it. So, next time when the Chicken Pox virus enters our body our immune system recognises it and able to fight it. So we not get that particular disease.

Similarly, Edward Jenner started injecting the cow pox virus because it is a very mild disease that can be easily cured. So the person who had suffered from cow pox did not get small pox.

No, small pox is a different virus and cannot be caused by Varicella zoster, the virus causing chicken pox.

Small pox is a disease caused by the variola virus. Symptoms include, a characteristic rash, especially on face, arms and legs. The rash mainly starts the 2nd or 3rd day. The resulting spots become filled with clear liquid, and then fill with pus. Then form a crust, which eventually comes off. Until the crust falls off you are contagious.you also get headaches backaches and a high fever. So small pox and chicken pox are completely different.

you are right because you can never get chicken pox and small pox at the SAME time but you may get small pox and then you can get a case of chicken pox. but if you get chicken pox dont worry about getting small pox because small pox is just a bunch of blisters on your body. but the same about both of them is that there are both contagios. so if you touch some one that has smalll pox or chicken pox you have a 78% chance of cathing it and a 22% chance of not getting that disease.

The easy answer is, it depends. As with any disease, people respond and recover in different ways and in different periods of time. I received the vaccine in June 2006 and had the typical nasty, blistery lesion that grew to about the size of a nickle over a period of about 10 days. It then gradually dried and reduced in size for another 2 weeks before the scab fell off. Total time to heal: ~30 days. It is important to note that the blister and scab material is infectious and we were advised to treat it as biologically hazardous waste. All bandages used to cover the vaccine site and the final scab had to be put in ziploc bags and brought in to the medical clinic for proper disposal.

Some people have existing immunity, either from previous vaccination or exposure to the virus, and they will have little, if any, reaction to the vaccine. I have seen people get a tiny little blister that heals up and disappears in less than a week and also people who have no reaction to the vaccine at all. Some others have had the scab hang on for more than 6 weeks.

At the other end of the spectrum, a complication of the vaccine can occur (particularly in immune compromised individuals or young children) that results in disseminated vaccinia (the virus used in the vaccine). This causes a rash that spreads from the original vaccine site (can cover the whole body), it can get into the eyes and cause occular damage but the most severe complication is if it enters the brain. It is important to seek medical attention if a rash develops anywhere other than the vaccine site. It can take months to recover from these complications. This is why it is important to keep the vaccine site covered and treat all bandages and the scab as biological waste. There have been cases of people unintentionally infecting their spouses, children and other contacts after receiving the vaccine.

the decimation of the native American population.

In 1979 Small pox was declared eradicated by the World Health Organization.

There is a lab in Atlanta, and Moscow that still have the smallpox virus. Other countries have it too because it was acquired illegally. It has only been eradicated from nature, we still have the virus. Now to answer the question. Smallpox is spread by releasing the virus. Then, people breathe it in and travel around and spread it to other people, those people travel around and spread it to more, and so on and so forth.

Yes it's called canine influenza (dog flu). Canine influenza is caused by varieties of influenza virus A, such as equine influenza virus H3N8. Unfortunately dogs have no natural immunity to the virus because of the lack of previous exposure.

There really is not true answer to that but some scientist and researchers say that it could be past from anything. For example a rat, or a mosquito,and even by clothes of one who was infected.

'Extinct' simply means there are no reported cases of a disease (or sightings of an animal or plant or bacteria, etc) known for a given amount of time -- it does not mean the 'thing' in question is permanently or irretrievably gone. The CDC (Center for Disease Control) has arbitrarily set 25 years as the line for declaring a disease extinct. Since there has been no case of smallpox, worldwide, reported in the past 25+ years, it has been declared eradicated (i.e. extinct). However, that said, the small pox virus does still exists in quarantine, in an undisclosed lab someplace in the world. This is necessary for scientific research into combating potential future outbreaks of smallpox (despite their unlikely occurrences) or smallpox-like diseases. Furthermore, with recent advances in genetic engineering, the possibility of someone, one day very soon, having the ability to engineer and sequence the smallpox genome again (or something similar) from common lifeless chemical sources will inevitably make the return of smallpox to humanity possible, despite it being declared extinct right now.

Small pox can occur anywhere. Most of the time, it is found in parts of the world that have not had much contact with it, because, they are not used to the disease and are not immune to it.

aztec people died from small pox and from sacrifice of their religoin.

Humans are the only species to be infected by smallpox. The history of smallpox extends into pre-history; the disease likely emerged in human populations about 10,000 BC.

The earliest credible evidence of smallpox is found in the Egyptian mummies of people who died some 3000 years ago. During the 18th century the disease killed an estimated 400,000 Europeans each year, including five reigning monarchs, and was responsible for a third of all blindness. Between 20 and 60% of all those infected, and over 80% of infected children, died from the disease.
Settlement of the east coast of North America in 1633 in Plymouth, Massachusetts was also accompanied by devastating outbreaks of smallpox among Native American populations, and subsequently among the native-born colonists. Some estimates indicate case fatality rates of 80–90% in Native American populations during smallpox epidemics.

U.S. Presidents George Washington, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln all contracted and recovered from the disease.

To this day, smallpox is the only human infectious disease to have been completely eradicated.

Small Pox, was officially determined, "dead", in 1977 by the World Health Organization. However, there are still two repositories of the Small Pox virus held in secure locations in Georgia, USA and Koltsovo, Russia, in-case of encountering the virus in a natural deposit or in the scenario of a bio-weapon attack.

Yes. Smallpox spreads by airborne contamination, meaning that people became infected by inhaling droplets exhaled by an infected person.

Fortunately, smallpox has now been successfully eradicated since 1979, and was the first disease for which a vaccine was developed (by Edward Jenner in the 1700s). You are at no risk of catching it.

The disease has been around since before the rise of Civilizations, at least 10,000 years and likely far longer.

The first known case is from an Egyptian mummy, dated to 1157 B.C., which shows signs of being infected with smallpox.

they caught it by high fevers and blisters, and when they traded with the British.

well actually we arent sure but it has been proven if you get any type of pox you wont be infected by smallpox**me:y do they keep all those bottles of smallpox when nobodys getting vaccinated its like they want sombody to steal it!!**

No. You can still get cold sores if you have had the chickenpox vaccine. Chickenpox and cold sores are caused by slightly different types of viruses in the herpesvirus family. Chickenpox is caused by varicella zoster virus, and cold sores are caused by herpes simplex virus.

Chickenpox can kill you but it is rare.

Before chickenpox vaccine became common in the US, 100 to 150 people died each year from chickenpox. Most of these were healthy adults. Since chickenpox vaccine became more common, Rates of chickenpox deaths are down by over 95% in patients under 50, and been halved in older adults.

People at highest risk for complications from chickenpox are babies, teenagers, and adults; pregnant women; and people with lower immune response, such as those with HIV, those who had organ transplants, or people on chemotherapy or long-term steroids.

Dr Edward Jenner discovered the vaccine in 1796 and published his findings in 1798.
Edward Jenner invented the vaccine for small pox in 1798. He prepared the vaccine from the cow pox virus. His discovery could save more lives than any other medical discovery.