To: Pharmboy
it was called “variolation.”
Collecting scabs and puss to infect the healthy. I'm not exactly sure why it worked the way it did but it brought the fatality rate down to 1 or 2% vs the usual 30% or so.
7 posted on
08/19/2011 12:20:10 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin)
To: cripplecreek
Collecting scabs and puss to infect the healthy. I'm not exactly sure why it worked the way it did but it brought the fatality rate down to 1 or 2% vs the usual 30% or so.
Infection through a small wound - 1% death rate.
Infection by inhalation into the mouth and lungs - 30% death rate.
Anthrax has a similar difference between airborne and subcutaneous infection.
11 posted on
08/19/2011 12:41:46 PM PDT by
Cheburashka
(Blade Runner was set in 2019. Except for the flying cars and replicants we're right on schedule.)
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