ANTHROP 2U03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Camelpox, Pathognomonicity, Monkeypox
31 Aug 2016
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From anglo saxon pocca meaning pocket or pouch. Smallpox traced to 1518; means small pocks. Distinctive rash is pathognomonic (symptoms readily identi able) Smallpox, gerbilpox and camelpox likely derived from common ancestors. Variola major (severe) and viral minor (mild) > By the 18thc, small endemic in much of the world for more than 2000 years. Killed more people for all ages, class, and societies than any other infectious disease. Growing signi cant may have been connected to decline in bubonic plague - Pathocenosis - the frequency and distribution of each disease depends on the frequency and distribution of all other diseases in the same population. Once a pattern of morbidity disappears, another appears. Hand of sarah nelms with cowpox lesions, 1796. Q: did smallpox eradication create new niche for other diseases through pathocenosis. In 1979, global commission for the certi cation of smallpox eradication recommended: destroy remaining stocks of viable virus or transfer the to designated labs.
