Yes, exactly. Thank you.
The point is about the question of transmission without obvious symptoms -- the pox or incapacitation and the answer is yes.
That would be after symptoms in most cases, such as fever, but not always, but not the obvious small pox symptoms.
Your thinking, symptoms - aches, fever, mucosal rash.
We are thinking, symptoms -- pox on the body starting to break out.
In the context of a small pox epidemic, the early signs would be understood.
But currently, some people would think they are under the weather, maybe achy with the flu and still go about their business.
From JAMA:
Historically, the rapidity of smallpox transmission throughout the population was generally slower than for such diseases as measles or chickenpox. Patients spread smallpox primarily to household members and friends; large outbreaks in schools, for example, were uncommon. This finding was accounted for in part by the fact that transmission of smallpox virus did not occur until onset of rash. By then, many patients had been confined to bed because of the high fever and malaise of the prodromal illness. Secondary cases were thus usually restricted to those who came into contact with patients, usually in the household or hospital.
You said in a freep mail to me:
It can be spread before pox appear and by aerosol means and that is what people want to know.
That is completely incorrect. I have now give 5 different references that state the same thing