what is smallpokes are u know

India
April 18, 2007 11:07am CST
i think this is the major disease and what do u think about smallpokes
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@oldboy46 (2129)
• Australia
18 Apr 07
I think you must mean smallpox ... it is a contagious disease that has been eradicated from most of the western world now .... and has been for about 30 or more years now. children were vaccinated against it when they were very young. It does still exist in some of the poorer countries, or those who do not have basic hygiene facilities available. It is also highly contagious although the serum for it was discovered a long time ago. A doctor noticed that milk maids never got smallpox ... the reason was that they often got cowpox from milking the cows by hand so from that they made the serum for smallpox. Many countries, including my own, Australia, will not allow people infected with this nasty disease into the country. I agree with that too ... we have eliminated the disease here and so do not want it back here again.