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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Just like the meme you are telling us how you think it went down.

Smallpox. Smallpox is the only disease that has been eradicated. During 1900-1904, an average of 48,164 cases and 1528 deaths caused by both the severe (variolamajor) and milder (variola minor) forms of smallpox were reported each year in the United States (1). Total not childhood.

Measles killed about 6000 per year. Total, not childhood

Chicken pox was not differentiated from small pox until the mid 1800s.


We don't know the full implications of removing viruses from out body. Vaccinating for chicken pox as an example. A herpes virus most anyone born before 1990 has in their body. What are the implications of not having it?

"Latent herpesviruses also arm natural killer cells, an important component of the immune system, which kill both mammalian tumor cells, and cells that are infected with pathogenic viruses."

There are places in the world where smallpox still exists.
 
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There are places in the world where smallpox still exists.

Oh jeez, here we go again. LOL

In 1980, the World Health Assembly declared smallpox eradicated (eliminated), and no cases of naturally occurring smallpox have happened since.


I didn't even know. I took a couple minutes to look for the answer though.
 
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