Smallpox is a highly contagious and sometimes deadly disease that is caused by infection with the variola virus. It has been around for thousands of years and has been associated with many deadly epidemics. ... Where does smallpox come from and how is it spread?
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A smallpox outbreak in 1780-82 followed the distribution and trade route of the Indian horse (Haines). The outbreak in 1800-02 spreads from the Plains Indians to the Indians along the Pacific coast. Despite heavy losses during these periods, the most devastating outbreak of smallpox was yet to come.
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It all started in the 1800s in Northern Europe. The Aztecs would eat different plants. Such as euglina and simple grass plants. Those various plants and grasses contained the bacteria of smallpox. Therefore the Aztecs were contagous, so the...
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Subject: Where did smallpox come from? ... Where did smallpox come from? I have read recently that smallpox was the first disease that was treated out of existense. I understand that there are only two samples of smallpox still in existense, one in some laboratory in Russia and one in the United States.
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Whereas smallpox formerly was a disease found in nature, it has been eliminated from the globe. Thus it would come from a storage facility
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In several states, public schools are dismissed 1 month early, in part because parents, fearful of contagion, are keeping their children home, and partly because teachers are refusing to come to work. Across the country, people refuse to serve on juries or attend public meetings for fear of contracting smallpox.
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Smallpox -- the disease by David B. Thomas ... Personal experience with smallpox by Dr. Anbesaw Selassie ... Smallpox, the disease...
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Where did smallpox come from? ... Why is smallpox so sought after for weapons use? ... Smallpox is a virus. There are two main clinical forms of the virus. The most dangerous is the variola major version.
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Can we why smallpox was considered a dangerous disease? We look at the differences in treatment back then and standards of treatment today. Have they really advanced? Two sets of three words come into play: cut, burn, poison or surgery, radiation, chemotherapy.
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