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To: redgolum
During the Brazil Olympics, they found small pox in the sewers.

Smallpox? Are you sure it wasn't polio?

Sewage is routinely tested for polio. Smallpox was spread by aerosols and contact with contaminated items, so it would have never been tested for in sewage. Smallpox was strictly a human disease, so when it was wiped out, it truly was wiped out. There are other pox diseases that people can catch, but they are not smallpox.

40 posted on 11/06/2017 4:38:46 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom

It was polio.

Sorry. 14 hour days and not enough coffee lead to bad FREEPING


50 posted on 11/07/2017 4:58:59 AM PST by redgolum
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