To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Probably the Arabs.
Small pox is (IIRC) a variation of camel pox that mutated to spread to people.
**********
Soooo...
That means smallpox started out as a sexually transmitted disease from camels to humans?
Because...
You know...
Arabs and their animals.
13 posted on
07/25/2020 11:22:30 AM PDT by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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.
15 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: Grimmy
Well that’s fecking disgusting.
:-P
26 posted on
07/25/2020 12:30:13 PM PDT by
Salamander
(Flying Colours....)
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson