“An elderly ‘immunocompromised’ man “
More fear porn?
So will my old smallpox vaccine be protective against this?
Chicken pox leaves one susceptible to shingles later in life.
Alaskapox......Cedar shakes?
Quick, mask up for the greater good. Let’s do this together to flatten the curve!
Time for a new vaccine.
Oh... so now it’s ok again to name the virus after where it was first discovered again because “majority white area?”
What BS.
I thought they didn’t name COVID the Hunan Virus or China Virus because it was discriminatory to name viruses with a geographical reference.
Now, Alaskapox is okay?
It’s interesting, but in the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic the Alaskan native population (Inuits, etc.) were particularly hard hit, as they apparently had no natural immunity to that flu.
Sooo...every State will now have its own Pox?
“ The double-stranded-DNA virus, which comes from the same genus as smallpox, monkeypox and cowpox”
He was probably a fag
Soon to be called Disease X.
The double-stranded-DNA virus, which comes from the same genus as smallpox, monkeypox and cowpox, was first identified in an adult in Fairbanks, Alaska in 2015. It is most common in small mammals, like voles shrews.
Sometimes it helps to go back to school.
Note this virus is most common in small animals.
In a time of supposed advancements in medical research, we sure are getting a lot of new viruses we can’t deal with.
It’s an election year. Anything can happen. And will...
We all sad nothing good would come from letting them ‘marry’...
We have run "what if" drills, and in November 2002 all states were required to prepare, within 10 days, an executable plan to deploy smallpox vaccine for the entire state population to be submitted to DOD. That led to THIS.
Being doctors, we wanted to know if there was a credible threat but that question met a brick wall. Many thousands of first responders were vaccinated, we all had to train in how to administer the vaccine by scratcing the skin and raising a blister or blisters.
Anyway, the official word back then was that the only live (frozen) smallpox in the world was in Atlanta and Novosibirsk, but it has since turned up (frozen) in France and Pennsylvania.
It's an ideal bioweapon. We had an agreement with the USSR that if no cases turned up 25 years after the last human case we would mutually destroy our stocks, but 9/11 put a stop to that (you need live smallpox to make the vaccine).
The plans were very detailed, locations were designated, site visits took place, airports for the vaccine to land from national stockpiles were identified and routes to the vaccine centers mapped out.
I still do not know why this happened, or why it happened when it did. Needless to say, I'm much more suspicious about the official version of events now than I was then.
There was a wargame right before 9/11 called Dark Winter, after several variations the minimum US dead were 30 million. I was watching the fire in WTC 1 on TV before work, and when the second plane hit, my first thought was "smallpox" (when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail).
Anything like “Glacier Dropsy” from the TV series “Northern Exposure?”
Apparently it is associated with people who have cats. I’m guessing outdoor cats that kill the rodents when they’re outside. So I should be safe since I have no cats.
I live in Missouri. Is there a ShowMePox?
Alaskapox? How demeaning for Alaska-nadians.
China took offense on their cu-uf, you know, that thing’
Will all virus’ be named after our states, except the blue ones, of course.