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(D2OL)™ - Pathogens - Smallpox smallpox infection was eliminated from the world in 1977. smallpox is caused by the variola virus. The incubation period is about http://www.d2ol.com/smallpox.html
Extractions: Overview Anthrax Smallpox SARS ... Plague Smallpox infection was eliminated from the world in 1977. Smallpox is caused by the variola virus. The incubation period is about 12 days (range: 7 to 17 days) following exposure. Initial symptoms include high fever, fatigue, and head and back aches. A characteristic rash, most prominent on the face, arms, and legs, follows in 2-3 days. The rash starts with flat red lesions that evolve at the same rate. Lesions become pus-filled and begin to crust early in the second week. Scabs develop and then separate and fall off after about 3-4 weeks. The majority of patients with smallpox recover, but death occurs in up to 30% of cases. Smallpox is spread from one person to another by infected saliva droplets that expose a susceptible person having face-to-face contact with the ill person. Persons with smallpox are most infectious during the first week of illness, because that is when the largest amount of virus is present in saliva. However, some risk of transmission lasts until all scabs have fallen off. Routine vaccination against smallpox ended in 1972. The level of immunity, if any, among persons who were vaccinated before 1972 is uncertain; therefore, these persons are assumed to be susceptible.
Edward Jenner Museum Mortality Rates from smallpox in the 18th century smallpox was the most feared and greatest killer of Jenner s time. What is smallpox? http://www.jennermuseum.com/sv/smallpox.shtml
Extractions: Smallpox was the most feared and greatest killer of Jenner's time. In today's terms it was as deadly as cancer or heart disease. It killed 10% of the population, rising to 20% in towns and cities where infection spread easily. Among children, it accounted for one-in-three of all deaths. Jenner called it the Speckled Monster. Smallpox is characterised by fever, headache, backache and vomiting twelve days after exposure to the virus. The rash appears three days later, beginning as small discrete pink spots which grow bigger and become slightly raised. By the third day these are tense blisters, 6mm in diameter and deep in the skin. These eventually shrink, dry up and fall off, leaving a sunken scar. In severe cases patients die of blood poisoning, secondary infections or internal bleeding. There is no effective treatment once infection has taken place. Smallpox is a very ancient disease. The scars on the mummified body of the Pharaoh Rameses V, who died in 1157BC, are believed to have been caused by smallpox. It spread throughout Europe and was carried to the Americas with the voyages of discovery. It killed far more Aztecs and North American Indians than ever died in battles with the white settlers.
Extractions: (CNN) Many call it the biggest public health decision the country has ever had to make: to vaccinate or not to vaccinate against the smallpox virus. Although the virus has been eradicated for over 20 years, it is believed that stores of the virus still exist in the world today, possibly in Iraq. Under a White House smallpox plan expected to be announced in the next few weeks, about 500,000 health workers and "first responders" would be vaccinated over a period of one to two months. The plus side is that these people would develop immunity within a few days and have protection against the smallpox virus. The down side is the potential side effects. According to health officials, 15 per 1 million people vaccinated would develop life-threatening complications, with one to two people out of every million actually dying from the vaccine. Through voluntary participation in clinical trials, the vaccine would be made available to the public, but the government would only recommend it for health workers and first responders.
USATODAY.com - Smallpox Vaccination Plan 'ceased' Less than a year after President Bush announced a smallpox vaccination plan to protect Americans in the event of a terrorist attack, a fraction of the expected http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2003-10-15-smallpox_x.htm
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Extractions: The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-Mail Services CNNtoGO SEARCH Web CNN.com Surgeon General Richard Carmona joined other federal health workers Tuesday in getting the smallpox vaccination. Story Tools RELATED Surgeon general to cops: Put down the donuts The vaccine what are the risks? What is smallpox and how does it spread? Bush outlines vaccination plan ... Medical field split on smallpox vaccine WASHINGTON (AP) Surgeon General Richard Carmona got his smallpox vaccination Tuesday, hoping to persuade reluctant health care providers to do the same. The Department of Health and Human Services invited news cameras to watch a public health nurse prick Carmona's arm 15 times as officials worked to build interest in the program. As of last week, just 12,690 people had been vaccinated, far short of the 450,000 people that federal officials had expected. About two dozen members of the Commissioned Corps, a special group of federal health workers, were also vaccinated Tuesday, to help supplement personnel on the state and local level. On Wednesday, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Julie Gerberding will be publicly vaccinated in Atlanta, as will Dr. D.A. Henderson, who led the global smallpox eradication campaign.
A Dose Of The Pox... smallpox has been known for many centuries. The pox . smallpox first appeared in China and the Far East at least 2000 years ago. http://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/Tutorials/Pox/Pox1.html
Extractions: The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-Mail Services CNNtoGO SEARCH Web CNN.com Smallpox vaccinations for health workers began in January in Connecticut. Story Tools RELATED Woman has reaction to smallpox vaccine BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut (AP) Hampered by fewer volunteers than expected, Connecticut is revising its plan to create smallpox response teams in hospitals, an official said Wednesday. The state hoped to vaccinate about 6,000 health care workers and health officials by spring, but early estimates show only 1,000 hospital workers have volunteered, said Christopher Cannon, an organizer of the state's smallpox response plan. That means officials may have to mobilize volunteers from more hospitals than the 32 originally slated to have smallpox response teams, said Cannon. "The good news is that every hospital in the state has agreed to participate," said Cannon, a director at Yale-New Haven Health System's Office of Emergency Preparedness. The number of public health officials who have volunteered for inoculations was not immediately available.
The First Recorded Smallpox Vaccination Edward Jenner is renown as the father of smallpox vaccination . Having had smallpox himself as a child, he was immune to the disease. http://www.thedorsetpage.com/history/smallpox/smallpox.htm
Extractions: Edward Jenner is renown as the "father of smallpox vaccination". Perhaps rightly so, for he dedicated his life, money and reputation to spreading the use of vaccination. In 1774,some twenty years before Jenner first used vaccination on a boy called James Phipps in 1796, at Berkeley in Gloucestershire, a farmer's wife, together with her two sons was vaccinated by her husband at Yetminster in Dorset. In 1774 farmer, Benjamin Jesty was living in Yetminster with his pregnant wife Elizabeth, two sons, Robert and Benjamin aged three and two, and a baby also called Elizabeth. During the spring and summer of that year the highly infectious disease of smallpox raged in the area. Benjamin feared for the health of his wife and family. Having had smallpox himself as a child, he was immune to the disease. In common with many country folk, Benjamin was fully aware of the age-old tradition that people who had earlier caught the mild disease of cowpox did not catch the normally fatal disease of smallpox. At this time, the Jestys had two dairymaids, Ann Notley and Mary Reade. Both of these girls had previously had cowpox, and both had nursed family members with smallpox during the current epidemic. I was probably the fact that neither of these girls had caught the disease that decided Benjamin on his subsequent course of action. Benjamin reasoned that if dairymaids who caught cowpox accidentally were immune to smallpox, then someone who caught cowpox deliberately should be equally immune. He therefore resolved to infect his family with cowpox with a procedure that was later to become known as vaccination. The word vaccination derives directly from this connection with cowpox. Vacca is the Latin for cow.
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Extractions: CNN White House Correspondent CRAWFORD, Texas (CNN) The Bush administration will retain U.S. stockpiles of the smallpox virus for continued research to deal with a potential attack of a new, weaponized form of the virus, CNN has confirmed. The virus stockpile is under the control of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and kept at an undisclosed location. The administration's move reverses a course set two decades ago to eradicate the smallpox virus. The official said the threat of bio-terrorism requires the country to retain the virus stockpiles to prepare for a potential smallpox attack. "This move is a recognition that it's a different climate, a different world," the official said. "Some country could be glad that we have this virus. As you weaponize this stuff, we may have to develop new vaccines to deal with it." The U.S. and Russia have the only known and confirmed stocks of the smallpox virus. But the official said there are concerns that some of Russia's stocks "somehow got loose" and may have fallen into the hands of Iraq, North Korea or a terrorist group such as Al Qaeda.
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Extractions: Languages Spanish Portuguese German Italian Korean Arabic Japanese Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW InStyle Business 2.0 SWIFTWATER, Pennsylvania (CNN) The drug company Aventis Pasteur will donate to the U.S. government the estimated 85 million to 90 million doses of smallpox vaccine that had been in storage since routine smallpox vaccination ended in 1972, it was announced Friday. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said a formal agreement had not yet been signed, pending the results of testing to determine the vaccine is safe and effective. "This will bolster our emergency smallpox stockpile, provide an extra layer of protection for all Americans in the event of a smallpox outbreak and strengthen our safety net in the event of a biological attack," Thompson said. EXTRA INFORMATION Smallpox Basics He said scientists have been "extremely encouraged by the initial results" of tests on the vaccine, and called the additional vaccines an "insurance policy" until more vaccines are made.
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