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To: Dog Gone
Could be, but the article go on to describe the fatality rate of smallpox. It would be helpful to get an accurate report of clinical symptoms, number of deaths, etc.
17 posted on 06/09/2002 1:45:24 PM PDT by Endeavor
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To: Endeavor
If my memory is correct, the last case of smallpox to be diagnosed was in 1977 in Somalia. The World Health Organization or CDC websites has reports on this.

This report from dawn.com is unlikely to be correct. A reporter is simply parroting a story from a villager. No physicians appear to be involved in the story. This appears to really be an attempt to get the Pakistani government to mobilize some public health support to this area.

It is unlikely that it is smallpox. The report describes two brothers having "smallpox" several "years" ago. If that was the case, then wild type small pox would exist and be transmitted in Pakistan for the last several years. There should be hundreds of cases identified by Pakistani WHO workers.

If this is a case of smallpox, the WHO failed to do their job (monitoring for infectious diseases in the third world).

90 posted on 06/09/2002 9:22:01 PM PDT by bonesmccoy
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