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To: Paleo Conservative

Only in THIS country.


53 posted on 08/17/2022 10:06:36 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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To: Gaffer
Only in THIS country.

Smallpox was totally eradicated worldwide in 1977. There was a medical photographer in 1978 in Birmingham, England who caught Smallpox due to failure of containment in a biolab investigating Smallpox virus. The photographer died, but before she died, her father had a fatal heart attack, and the lab director committed suicide. The WHO recommended either destroying all Smallpox samples or sending them to either Novosibirsk, Russia or the CDC in Atlanta.

Monkeypox is not Smallpox but it is related enough that Smallpox vaccines work against it. The people who have brought back Monkeypox to the US are almost entirely US citizens. WHO and CDC should have been recommending vaccination in Africa a decade or two ago to prevent transmission to humans. It's apparent that Monkeypox has mutated enough to allow human to human transmission. It is still a zoonotic disease that can be spread by animals. It needs to be extinguished in the populations where it has spread outside of Africa to prevent animals in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia from getting infected and making it endemic to those regions.

57 posted on 08/17/2022 10:29:34 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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The spread of Monkeypox was impossible back when most people had Smallpox vaccinations. It needs to be contained to parts of sub-Saharan Africa with an aggressive program of vaccinating humans in the countries where it is endemic in wild animals. People intending to travel to those countries should have the vaccines available to them before they travel. The WHO and CDC need to get rid of their extreme control of Smallpox vaccines that have created this problem. Bioterrorism using Smallpox is a much smaller danger than transmission of wild orthopox viruses to humans.


59 posted on 08/17/2022 10:39:32 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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