Smallpox

[bobdole369]

EEW!!!!! WTFOMG!!!!!!!!

I got physically ill looking at pictures. Like I was going to have a panic attack. Anyone who has seen it knows what it is. Don't link. Fuck ew.

Thank god we eradicated this, and a big fuck you to folks not getting their kids immunized.

 

[guyver01]

nothing wrong with pictures of it..

it's not like it's Flesh Eating disease or anything

 

[bobdole369]

AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! ::runs screaming in terror from thread:: WHY DID I MAKE???!!!!!

 

[bobdole369]

And flesh eating disease - pretty fucking nasty. But I seriously got panicky when I first saw smallpox. I really didn't like it at all.

 

[lxskllr]

I wonder what it feels like. Chicken pox were the suck when I got them :^(

 

[guyver01]

AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! ::runs screaming in terror from thread:: WHY DID I MAKE???!!!!!

dude.. seriously?

reach into your vagina and pull out your penis.

man up.

 

[FoBoT]

should have included poll for those who were immunized for smallpox and those not
you guys that haven't gotten your smallpox vaccine are putting us all at risk

 

[guyver01]

should have included poll for those who were immunized for smallpox and those not
you guys that haven't gotten your smallpox vaccine are putting us all at risk

i thought smallpox vaccine was mandatory.

i got it before i started school.. and that wa back in the 70's

 

[adairusmc]

AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! ::runs screaming in terror from thread:: WHY DID I MAKE???!!!!!

 

[frostedflakes]

They don't vaccinate for smallpox anymore (at least not in the US). My parents have those scars on their shoulder from the vaccination, it's a bit more serious than MMR. Since it's basically wiped out (for now, at least) there's no point in vaccinating for it. Risk of complications due to the vaccine is higher than the risk of getting the disease.

 

[FoBoT]

The United States stopped vaccinating the general population in 1972, but continued to vaccinate military personnel. It was recommended that vaccination of military personnel stop in 1986, and vaccination was officially stopped in military recruits in 1990.

http://dermatology.about.com/cs/smallpox/a/smallpoxhx.htm

 

[bobdole369]

OMG so you mean I am not vaccinated??!!! Fuck. No wonder they are so scared of the terrorists getting hold of it.

 

[frostedflakes]

AFAIK there are only a couple samples of smallpox still in existence, and I'm sure they are very well protected.

 

[CottonRabbit]

And flesh eating disease - pretty fucking nasty. But I seriously got panicky when I first saw smallpox. I really didn't like it at all.

I agree, smallpox looks more disturbing to me than something like mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (I'll let you Google it). However, as others have said, naturally occuring smallpox has the distinction of being the only disease that humanity has ever completely eradicated from the Earth.

 

[FoBoT]

OMG so you mean I am not vaccinated??!!! Fuck. No wonder they are so scared of the terrorists getting hold of it.

but all of us old people are
so if something happened , there would only be old people left to repopulate the earth

 

[Ruptga]

but all of us old people are
so if something happened , there would only be old people left to repopulate the earth

The smallpox pictures don't scare me, but that mental image does.