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To: ResistorSister
Is that what smallpox looks like? I really don't even know what it does to you or how it kills you or anything. Pretty dumb, huh?
16 posted on 10/13/2001 3:06:21 PM PDT by smileee
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To: smileee
I just did a search and found these pictures. They say this is what smallpox looks like. If you want to learn more about smallpox...just use your computer to do the research...tons of info on the net.

smallpox lesions - Smallpox is thought to have existed for over eight hundred years. The disease was first documented in China in 1122 under the name variola. It didn't earn its name until 1666 during the smallpox epidemic in England. It was thought to have been spread as the English colonised the New World.

19 posted on 10/13/2001 3:09:58 PM PDT by ResistorSister
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To: smileee
Is that what smallpox looks like? I really don't even know what it does to you or how it kills you or anything. Pretty dumb, huh?

Absolutely not. knowing that you don't know something is the only way to learn.

here's something i found just now:

During the past century, the prototypical disease, variola major, caused mortality of 3% and 30% in the vaccinated and unvaccinated, respectively. Routine smallpox vaccination was discontinued in the United States in 1972. Immunity from prior smallpox vaccination wanes with time and at this point, the entire United States' civilian population is likely susceptible. However, persons who have been vaccinated in the past may experience less severe disease.

Please don't call yourself dumb for not knowing something- here's what Socrates had to say about that:

"He thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite concious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

25 posted on 10/13/2001 3:22:35 PM PDT by fourdeuce82d
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