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Vikings had smallpox and may have helped spread the world's deadliest virus
EurekAlert! ^
| July 23, 2020
| St John's College, University of Cambridge
Posted on 07/25/2020 10:53:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/25/2020 10:53:57 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
07/25/2020 10:54:32 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
Does this mean we can put Chris Columbus back up again? Vikings were spreading Small Pox to the Indians before him.
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posted on
07/25/2020 10:59:40 AM PDT
by
chuckles
To: SunkenCiv
Scientists have discovered extinct strains of smallpox How were the Vikings able to eradicate smallpox?
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posted on
07/25/2020 10:59:52 AM PDT
by
Cowboy Bob
(Mocking Liberals is not only a right, but the duty of all Americans.)
To: Cowboy Bob
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posted on
07/25/2020 11:01:26 AM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(The Revolution Will Not Be Televised but It Will Be Livestreamed)
To: SunkenCiv
Oh No.
A vaccine that ultimately enabled scientists to stop smallpox
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posted on
07/25/2020 11:01:44 AM PDT
by
truth_seeker
( ^^\/**|_|**\/ ^^^^)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
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posted on
07/25/2020 11:02:08 AM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(The Revolution Will Not Be Televised but It Will Be Livestreamed)
To: SunkenCiv
But but but!
Who gave it to the vikings?
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posted on
07/25/2020 11:12:03 AM PDT
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: Grimmy
They picked it up during a visit to Poxistan.
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posted on
07/25/2020 11:17:52 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Grimmy
Who gave it to the vikings? Probably the Arabs.
Small pox is (IIRC) a variation of camel pox that mutated to spread to people.
Most deadly viruses are from animals living in close proximity to humans. Cows, pigs and chickens being the biggest virus reservoirs.
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posted on
07/25/2020 11:18:20 AM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
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posted on
07/25/2020 11:21:15 AM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: Grimmy
Who gave it to the vikings? Must have been the Chinese take-outs with their bat soup and flied lice.
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posted on
07/25/2020 11:21:38 AM PDT
by
Covenantor
(We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Probably the Arabs.
Small pox is (IIRC) a variation of camel pox that mutated to spread to people.
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Soooo...
That means smallpox started out as a sexually transmitted disease from camels to humans?
Because...
You know...
Arabs and their animals.
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posted on
07/25/2020 11:22:30 AM PDT
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: Cowboy Bob
What? You haven’t heard of “herd immunity”?
To: Grimmy
Probably not.
Cow Pox which is a related but very mild form of the disease was caught by dairy maids just by milking the cows. And yes, in the ME they milk camels.
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posted on
07/25/2020 11:28:50 AM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
To: SunkenCiv
Ah ha! So it wasn’t Columbus that spread it through the new world.
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posted on
07/25/2020 11:31:15 AM PDT
by
A Navy Vet
(I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamo nauseated. Also LGBTQxyz nauseated)
To: SunkenCiv
The Vikings havent been much of a threat since the 1970s.
To: SunkenCiv
Yet they still went to work raping and pillaging...
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posted on
07/25/2020 11:38:57 AM PDT
by
EEGator
To: SunkenCiv
Dr. Fauci is probably quite anxious to
send this ancient strain of smallpox to
to his friends in Wuhan, China to be
functionally enhanced.
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posted on
07/25/2020 11:54:26 AM PDT
by
StormEye
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/25/2020 11:56:14 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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