My husband said he had heard on one of the radio shows that he had heard that there was an outbreak of smallpox somewhere in Pakistan. Crimean Hemoraghic Fever was also mentioned. He said it was one of the conspiracy type shows. The show seemed to speculate that Taliban types had gotten a hold of it and tried it out but it got loose somehow. Has anyone heard anything about this or can they confirm it?
EBOLA Smallpox & Crimean Hemoraghic Fever
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bobfall2005
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Any smallpox outbreak anywhere and the bullshit ends. The adults take over.
Leigh19717
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I like the way you think Bobfall2005
Heck, you'd think that would be the case with Ebola. But them an "outbreak" is a relative term.
Reasonable Rascal
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The word for smallpox in the Urdu language is the same whether it is camel pox or chicken pox, monkey pox , or smallpox. There was a report of "smallpox" about 12 years ago when I was buying medical instruments from Pakistan and I asked my contacts over there about it. To them pox is pox.
RR
RR
Indeed - infectious Smallpox in the wild is the game-changer. One case of this popping up and much of the world begins enacting their nightmare-scenario contingency planning.
Freeholder
This too shall pass.
Are the other poxes as deadly in that area as smallpox was? Otherwise, it seems strange they would use the same name for them.
And I totally agree about that one being a game-changer. It makes me uneasy whenever I think about the samples that are being held in labs.
Kathleen
I don't know how much immunity I might still have. I think immunity is only fairly sure for 5 years or so. Anybody know for sure?
I was vaccinated for smallpox once as a kid, I think once when I first came in the military, for sure once later on in the military and once after 911 working for the state.
The first 3 times nobody made a big deal about it and it was fairly routine.
The last time they made a big deal out of it and we were given instructions and told to keep it covered and had to have it checked after a few days.
I was vaccinated for smallpox once as a kid, I think once when I first came in the military, for sure once later on in the military and once after 911 working for the state.
The first 3 times nobody made a big deal about it and it was fairly routine.
The last time they made a big deal out of it and we were given instructions and told to keep it covered and had to have it checked after a few days.
Yep, that's what I read a while ago while discussing Bill Gates vaccination drive in India.
Reasonable Rascal
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Only chicken pox is known to infect humans, so no. It's just a quirk of the Urdu language. it is not technical by nature. Hence, a pox is a pox is a pox as far as they are concerned when speaking of it. At its heart Pakistan is still not a well advanced nation and the national language (English is actually the other major language) hasn't kept up with the advances in medicine, etc.
RR