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I see there's another case now, thought to be unconnected.

http://www.ngyab.com/2017/10/05/monkey-pox-nigeria-symptoms-prevention-can-catch-everything-need-know/



Looks like there are more cases in Nigeria.

Smallpox was so named because it was a lesser evil that the Great Pox.

You know, that other one you catch from close friends!

Linda ...............

no-one is doubting you!

It's only me being corrected, because I didn't go far enough back in the history of medicine ;-)

It does exist, it seems to be serious disease related to chicken pox or smallpox, found in tropical areas of Africa

It can be deadly, and this was the first case in England ........

......... but as with so many tropical diseases, its occurrence may well happen again with climate warming and the fast speed at which people can travel form one country to another.

There are more and more tropical diseases arriving in more northerly countries every year.

It's probably called monkey-pox because it might have been first identified in monkeys (doh!!!)

after all, cow pox was so-called because it appears (appeared?) on cows' udders, and milkmaids caught it when milking.

I have not googled to discover how humans catch monkey-pox ......... eating monkeys?? Or other ways.

this is true I'm not kidding I never heard of it before but this man did fly into a navy base in cornwall has there is only one down there and that is Culdrose

You've got it licked Bob

It is called vaccine from the Latin word for cow. I don' think I made that up.

People in England were often not vaccinated against smallpox for a long time.

It was not one of the vaccinations that I received as a child, and I did have the full complement that was available, including polio (on sugar cubes!) when I was about 18.

I had to have a smallpox vaccination done before I left England, in my late twenties.

It was not common here in the 70s, daughter was required to have it when we were going to live in Australia, but our doctor refused as she had a small patch of eczema on her leg. He had to write a letter explaining that, and then a poor doctor in Perth had to be roused in the middle of the night to come out to the airport, read the letter and check her out.

Once he approved her entry, we were allowed to enter Australia, and re-board the plane to go on to Melbourne!

It is also feared to exist in corpses frozen in the ground which could become exposed.

Before Jenner the idea already existed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Mary_Wortley_Montagu#Ottoman_smallpox_inoculation

AFAIK young people are no longer immunised against smalloox but do get chirckenpox jabs.
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Given the inclinations of some terrorist groups and what was once the USSR I am not sure this is a good idea. The virus still exists at three labs in the Uk, USA and Russia.

Tell me an udder :-D :-D :-D

We all deserve a pat on the head!

Okay now you're all milking it for humour....

I will because I am too ;-) :-D :-D :-D

I doubt anyone will agree with you Sharron <3

I have always been a mad cow!

Some think mad cow disease started at # 10 :-S

I bet you can't remember what you had for breakfast though.

Yeah!!

I'm not going mad or losing my memory!!!!

from Google ................

n 1796, he carried out his now famous experiment on eight-year-old James Phipps. Jenner inserted pus taken from a cowpox pustule and inserted it into an incision on the boy's arm. ... Jenner subsequently proved that having been inoculated with cowpox Phipps was immune to smallpox.

BBC - History - Edward Jenner
www.bbc.com/history/historic_figures/jenner_edward.shtml

If I remember correctly .............. Jenner realised that milkmaids who had cowpox did not get smallpox, and wondered if they had some sort of protection.

I think that his "vaccine" was live cowpox (got from blisters), and he somehow tried infecting someone who was later exposed to smallpox, and it worked.

I AM trying to think back 50-60 years!!!


Perhaps I should google before I get corrected by someone ;-)