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Smallpox
Smallpox is a serious, contagious, and sometimes fatal disease caused by the variola virus.
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Does small pox have blisters with scabs?
Most chickenpox lesions develop scabs. An exception can occur in patients previously vaccinated for chickenpox who get mild "breakthrough" chickenpox. These patient' chickenpox sores and blisters may never scab over but may simply disappear.
The blister forms then turns later turns into a scab and eventually heals. Even the tiny little blisters form a small scab that is sometimes barely noticable.
Whatever you do do not pick at the blisters it can get infected, remember they are not pimples and you won't accelerate the healig process by doing this. If you have an excess of yellow pus it may already be infected and you need to see a doctor who can prescribe antibiotics for this secondary infection. Generally the scab leaves a scar that may take about 12 months to go away. Use vitamin E on them and you can reduce the effect of the scars sooner.
Who is the pioneer of the smallpox vaccine?
Edward Anthony Jenner (17 May 1749 - 26 January 1823) was an English scientist who is widely credited as the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, and is sometimes referred to as the "Father of Immunology".
How many people worldwide was infected by smallpox?
Just the once. After that, they either get immunity from it, or die from it.
What is the mode of transmission for smallpox?
Chickenpox is usually acquired by the inhalation of airborne respiratory droplets from an infected host
Symptons of Small Pox usually appear within 7 to 17 days after the transmission of the virus. The early symptons of Small Pox include headaches, high fevers, tiredness, body aches, back ache, and vomiting. Just in case you were also wondering..... Small Pox is a highly contagious disease. I hope I answered your question.(:
What are the symptoms of small pox?
Signs and Symptoms of Chicken Pox
Chickenpox is a highly contagious disease that spreads from person to person by direct contact or through the air from an infected person's coughing or sneezing. Touching the fluid from a chickenpox blister can also spread the disease. A person with chickenpox is contagious from 1-2 days before the rash appears until all blisters have formed scabs. This may take 5-10 days. It takes from 10-21 days after contact with an infected person for someone to develop chickenpox.
The chickenpox lesions (blisters) start as a 2-4 mm red papule which develops an irregular outline (rose petal). A thin-walled, clear vesicle (dew drop) develops on top of the area of redness. This "dew drop on a rose petal" lesion is very characteristic for chickenpox. After about 8-12 hours the fluid in the vesicle gets cloudy and the vesicle breaks leaving a crust. The fluid is highly contagious, but once the lesion crusts over, it is not considered contagious. The crust usually falls off after 7 days sometimes leaving a crater-like scar. Although one lesion goes through this complete cycle in about 7 days, another hallmark of chickenpox is the fact that new lesions crop up every day for several days. Therefore, it may take about a week until new lesions stop appearing and existing lesions crust over. Children are not to be sent back to school until all lesions have crusted over. Second infections with chickenpox occur in immunocompetent individuals, but are uncommon. Such second infections are rarely severe. A soundly-based conjecture being carefully assessed in countries with low prevalence of chickenpox due to immunisation, low birth rates, and increased separation is that immunity has been reinforced by subclinical challenges and this is now less common. This is more dangerous with shingles. There have been reported cases of repeat infections. Chickenpox is highly contagious and is spread through the air when infected people cough or sneeze, or through physical contact with fluid from lesions on the skin. Zoster, also known as shingles, is a reactivation of chickenpox and may also be a source of the virus for susceptible children and adults. It is not necessary to have physical contact with the infected person for the disease to spread. Those infected can spread chickenpox before they know they have the disease - even before any rash develops. In fact, people with chickenpox can infect others from about 2 days before the rash develops until all the sores have crusted over, usually 4-5 days after the rash starts.
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_pox
Very itchy, fever, not very hungry and very uncountable.
Tiredness, loss of appetite, fever, nausea, headache. The most obvious symptom are the pox marks on the skin.
How did Edward Jenner discover the smallpox?
He did not discover much about the actual disease, but he came up with the vaccine. the first EVER vaccine.
Of all the diseases ever suffered by humans, smallpox is the only one to be completely eradicated from the face of the Earth. The few known remaining samples are under heavy guard in research labs in Russia and the United States.
What was the worst case scenario on smallpox?
You would die around two weeks after infection, the first week you are rather well, and can't infect anyone, but after that your health goes downhill until death finally meets you.
The only cure is Vacination, nothing else, so protect yourself from it so you don't get it.
What group of people are most affected by smallpox?
As you know, samllpocks are an early stage of the the chicken pocks. But when someone first got it a long time ago, nobody knew what was happening. They did not have a cure or anything like we do today. Many suffered and died from the smallpox, and they did not know what to do.
Where did smallpox occur the most?
Smallpox is very rare now that sciencetist has figured out a way to cure it. However, back in the 1400s smallpox was common in Mexico where most of the Aztecs suffered from and died. Smallpox was brought by Cortes who spreaded it around in Mexico.
Where did edward Jenner discover smallpox?
In 1796, he injected an 8 year old boy with cowpox, a less lethal form of the small pox. This created an immunization to smallpox and was coined the first vaccination.
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.
Smallpox was contagious, in other words, it was posssible to get smallpox from someone who had intimate contact with a carrier, but to the best of my knowledge never reached epidemic proportions.
For some reason it appeared that milk maids who were women who worked with cows, particularly those who actually milked them, and remember, we're talking literal 'hands on' as this was before the invention of machines, built up an immunity to small pox.
Don't confuse Smallpox with 'the pox' which was another, alltogether revolting condition.
Who discovered the medicine for smallpox?
Smallpox has no "cure" per se, and the infected person can only be provided some general treatment to help the body fight off the infection. It's akin to "having the flu" and it is the body that must win the battle to get clear of the bug. Hit the link to the Wikipedia article. Smallpox has been around for literally thousands of years. And it has killed hundreds of millions of people throughout history. There is however a vaccination to prevent smallpox which was discovered by Edward Jenner. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_vaccine
What did the smallpox vaccine do?
Edward Jenner discovered that farmers who had caught cowpox did not suffer from smallpox. He then started injecting people with small doses of cowpox and he observed that they did not catch smallpox. He had created a vaccination for smallpox. :D
What did Edward Jenner call his method of protection from smallpox?
vaccination, from the latin word vaccina (cow). because he used an extract from cow pustules, not human pustules as others had tried earlier. cowpox and smallpox are close enough related to cause crossimmunity, but cowpox can't infect humans.
Answer 1:
No. You have the right to decide whether you want a vaccine or not, but doing what the CDC wants is definitely the wise thing to do. This is primarilly a legal and ethical issue. The CDC is a government agency charged with disease prevention and research; it is not an enforcement or police agency. An important tennant of US culture is the freedom of the individual. The government is not generally permitted to force an individual to do things when it is merely for the good of that one person. So, except in most eggregious situations, extremely resistant tuberculosis is one example, competant adults cannot be forced to accept a vaccination. Answer 2:
The US Supreme Court has ruled that you cannot be forced to take a vaccination - but you can be restricted from activities without the vaccination (which is a way to force the vaccination by another means). For instance, if you refuse a vaccination you can be refused participation in any public program (even if that is a force program like attending public school - so you will be jailed for not attending school, even though they refuse to let you attend because you refuse a vaccination. IE: Forced vaccinations by any other name). A provision in the Patriot Act, and follow up acts, allows for the government to declare a national medical emergency and force a vaccination on anyone, or if you refuse, they can jail you until the emergency is passed or you take the vaccination; many states have state laws that are the same.
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) is an arm of the US Public Health Service which is overseen by the Surgeon General of the US (a cabinet level position). Under certain limited government-declared health/disease emergencies the Public Heealth Service (in order prevent or reduce the spread of communicable diseases throughout the general population) is empowered to require individuals to become treated or immunized. Under 'normal' situations the Public Health Service "recommends" that certain steps be taken in order to prevent the spread of illness and disease but they do no have the power of law, UNLESS - Congress or State governments adapt these recommendations and give them the force of law (e.g.: the requirement that children entering school must have immunizations against certain communicable diseases).
What is worse smallpox or cowpox?
Smallpox looks like a whole bunch of little raised dots on your skin. Normally starting on your hands,face,and feet, then spreading. A couple days later it will burst and bleed and scab over. once the scab falls off your are scared for life.
What is Electrochemiluminescence?
Electrochemiluminescence (ECL) is a luminescent phenomenon that occurs when an electrochemical reaction generates excited states of molecules, leading to the emission of light. This process typically involves the oxidation or reduction of specific luminophores at an electrode, which results in the production of excited species that can emit photons as they return to their ground state. ECL is widely used in analytical chemistry, particularly in biosensing and the detection of biomolecules, due to its high sensitivity and versatility. Its applications extend to various fields, including medical diagnostics and environmental monitoring.
When William penn was three did he get smallpox?
Yes he did. He almost died but he was saved by a Indian medicine man.
When William Penn was 30 he saw the medicine mans son and was having dinner with him when a man walked in and shot him. W
