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Smallpox
Smallpox is a serious, contagious, and sometimes fatal disease caused by the variola virus.
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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
What are the symptoms of smallpox?
symptoms of smallpox · fever, body aches, headache, chills, and, particularly, backache. Over half of people with smallpox experience chills and vomiting.
High fever,Fatigue,headaches,and backaches also you will get all sweety
Fever, body aches, chills, vomiting the worst was death
Dying.
The symptoms of smallpox are very much like those of a fever.
This can be; a high temperature, tiredness and body aches.
well they might be different but they are just a scientfic term. like chicken pox!
Smallpox vaccination is VERY IMPORTANT TO DO!!!!!!
How can smallpox spread from one person to another?
(All answers are correct). Aerosols generated by a patient sneezing or coughing, Droplets during face-to-face contact with a patient & Direct contact with the patient's scabs.
What are the simptoms of smallpox?
The symptoms of the disease start with body ache and sometimes vomiting with a high fever over 101o. Over the next few days, pus-filled blisters develop over large portions of the body.
The vaccine side effects are usually limited to itching, fever, body ache, swollen lymph nodes, sore arm, mild rash as well as a rash at the injection site.
Smallpox has been eradicated - thanks to vaccination campaigns.
The only truly effective "treatment" for smallpox is vaccination. Receiving a vaccination within 3 days of exposure should severely lessen or completely prevent symptoms.
Other than vaccination, other treatments are mostly supportive, such as wound care.
