Monkeypox hits Europe:

Bonnie said:
Can't blame the illegals for the only case of monkeypox that is in the states right now.
That one case is in the NE .. Mass., and it's a man that was in Canada recently ... an immigrant from the north?


An aside .... the smallpox vaccine was given routinely to children until 1972 in the US, then stopped.

Have a scar on your upper left arm? .. that is the smallpox vaccine.
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I don't have a vaccination scar on my arm.. seen people with them... never knew it was for smallpox
 

@hollydolly, over here they used to pretty much mandate that kids, starting school, get vaccines for several illnesses, if they didn't already have the protection from babyhood.
I got medical record books (from the doctor) for my kids from birth until school age, for all the inoculations that were required.

I don't know what they do these days!
 
Bonnie said:
Can't blame the illegals for the only case of monkeypox that is in the states right now.
That one case is in the NE .. Mass., and it's a man that was in Canada recently ... an immigrant from the north?


An aside .... the smallpox vaccine was given routinely to children until 1972 in the US, then stopped.

Have a scar on your upper left arm? .. that is the smallpox vaccine.
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Funny you failed to mention Hepatitis which is a much more serious disease then Monkeypox. Should we talk more about TB, VD, Small Pox, Staff infections, etc. Based on what is already known in England and Europe, Monkeypox is likely on its way to our southern borders...

When our government allows immigrants to come into our country without any serious health screening, we know, 100% that they will bring diseases with them! You surely cannot ignore this fact...
 

Bonnie said:
@hollydolly, over here they used to pretty much mandate that kids, starting school, get vaccines for several illnesses, if they didn't already have the protection from babyhood.
I got medical record books (from the doctor) for my kids from birth until school age, for all the inoculations that were required.

I don't know what they do these days!
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yes I had the BCG at school, and probably various vaccinations when I was a baby, and of course I ensured my DD had all her necessary vaccinations too, measles, whooping cough, BCG etc.. but neither her nor me were ever asked to have a Smallpox Vaccination...altho' as I say, I have seen it on other people's arms, just didn't realise what it was ..
 
Timewise 60+ said:
Funny you failed to mention Hepatitis which is a much more serious disease then Monkeypox. Should we talk more about TB, VD, Small Pox, Staff infections, etc. Based on what is already known in England and Europe, Monkeypox is likely on its way to our southern borders...

When our government allows immigrants to come into our country without any serious health screening, we know, 100% that they will bring diseases with them! You surely cannot ignore this fact...
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You are preaching to the wrong person.
 
Timewise 60+ said:
Funny you failed to mention Hepatitis which is a much more serious disease then Monkeypox. Should we talk more about TB, VD, Small Pox, Staff infections, etc. Based on what is already known in England and Europe, Monkeypox is likely on its way to our southern borders...

When our government allows immigrants to come into our country without any serious health screening, we know, 100% that they will bring diseases with them! You surely cannot ignore this fact...
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what IS already known in Europe... ?
 
win231 said:
I'll reply after I do some..........laundry.
I don't like any disease with the word "Pox" in it.
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Me neither Win, and since I'm taking another day off all the sheets are going in the wash! :ROFLMAO:

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Bonnie said:
Can't blame the illegals for the only case of monkeypox that is in the states right now.
That one case is in the NE .. Mass., and it's a man that was in Canada recently ... an immigrant from the north?


An aside .... the smallpox vaccine was given routinely to children until 1972 in the US, then stopped.

Have a scar on your upper left arm? .. that is the smallpox vaccine.
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I don't have a scar but I was vaccinated at 3 months old! šŸ˜–
 
hollydolly said:
I don't have a vaccination scar on my arm.. seen people with them... never knew it was for smallpox
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When I was very young, we did have the smallpox vaccine in the UK in the early sixties. I have a small, barely noticeable scar, mum has a bigger scar. More recently, my doctor mentioned the scar on my arm and I said it was the smallpox vaccine. He said I was mistaken, I said I wasn't. It's a shame he didn't offer a bet on it because, a few minutes later, after having scrolled through my medical records, he confirmed that it was indeed the smallpox vaccine. My older brother remembers it all more clearly than I do, he fainted at the time :)
 
Trish said:
When I was very young, we did have the smallpox vaccine in the UK in the early sixties. I have a small, barely noticeable scar, mum has a bigger scar. More recently, my doctor mentioned the scar on my arm and I said it was the smallpox vaccine. He said I was mistaken, I said I wasn't. It's a shame he didn't offer a bet on it because, a few minutes later, after having scrolled through my medical records, he confirmed that it was indeed the smallpox vaccine. My older brother remembers it all more clearly than I do, he fainted at the time :)
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Well I was a child of the 60's... as I said , I don't have that round scar that some people have on their arms. My mother had it, my father didn't.. and none of us kids have it.

I remember clearly the BCG ,kids fainting in the queue.. that would have been about '69... I didn't have it, I just remembered because my skin test showed I had the TB immunity in my blood, probably due to my mother having TB when I was 8 or 9 years old..

Apparently nowadays the BCG is not routinely given in schools, nor is the smallpox vaccine.. not since basically when I left school in '71
 
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hollydolly said:
Scotland
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Perhaps the smallpox vaccination wasn't given to children in Scotland? I wonder whether it was a "lifetime" vaccine, it was a very long time ago :)

I just did some Googling and could only see mention of England and Wales having the smallpox vaccine in the 1960's. It seems there were quite significant side effects for some people having had the vaccine so perhaps Scotland erred on the side of caution.
 
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Lavinia said:
It's intriguing how these things start. This is another one which originated in Africa and seems to primarily affect homosexual men....just like Aids. Other viruses originate in the Far East.
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Both of those viruses originated in animals. Researchers said the HIV originated in goats. But they didn't call it the goat virus ...maybe because G.O.A.T. is an acronym for Greatest Of All Time, but I doubt it. They're researchers.
 
Trish said:
Perhaps the smallpox vaccination wasn't given to children in Scotland? I wonder whether it was a "lifetime" vaccine, it was a very long time ago :)

I just did some Googling and could only see mention of England and Wales having the smallpox vaccine in the 1960's. It seems there were quite significant side effects for some people having had the vaccine so perhaps Scotland erred on the side of caution.
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good thinking but apparently it was very much available in Scotland right back to the 1800's there are records available...

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/sea...sgow-smallpox-vaccination-registers-1801-1854
 
Timewise 60+ said:
I heard on the news this morning that this disease is now in the USA! Thanks for this and a massive infection on young children of hepatitis. All of it is a direct result of illegal immigration into our country with no health vetting being done...

The invasion continues...
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The US has more legal immigrants than illegal entrants and immigrants, and swears in more immigrants as new citizens than the rest of the world combined. Also, every year, 100s of thousands of non-US citizens come and go legally as visitors, on their temporary work permits, as students or share-holding businessmen.
 
hollydolly said:
good thinking but apparently it was very much available in Scotland right back to the 1800's there are records available...

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/sea...sgow-smallpox-vaccination-registers-1801-1854
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After limited outbreaks in London and Birmingham, the 1962 smallpox epidemic was focused on Cardiff and the valleys of south Wales, where 19 people died and almost a million were vaccinated against the disease.

London, Birmingham and Cardiff so, perhaps your mum decided the risk of it occurring in Scotland was so small it wasn't worth chancing any side effects.

It seems that the smallpox vaccine wanes after about five years so, redundant now.
 
I am going to keep my porta potty handy and put it in my car when I am traveling. Those gas station restrooms are dangerous to use at times.
 
Lawrence said:
I am going to keep my porta potty handy and put it in my car when I am traveling. Those gas station restrooms are dangerous to use at times.
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They sure are. Especially in the middle of the desert on a hot summer night with a dimly-lit restroom. I've found Black Widows & a Rattlesnake next to the toilet. It would have been a very.....interesting visit if not for the keychain flashlight.
 
hollydolly said:
I don't have a vaccination scar on my arm.. seen people with them... never knew it was for smallpox
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Those of us who spent time abroad had more than one. My daughter was one of the last children to have the smallpox vaccination. She is now in her fifties.
The vaccine is not given by injection, it is scratched into the surface of the skin, so it leaves a scar.
 
Lavinia said:
Those of us who spent time abroad had more than one. My daughter was one of the last children to have the smallpox vaccination. She is now in her fifties.
The vaccine is not given by injection, it is scratched into the surface of the skin, so it leaves a scar.
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Oh, that's the reason for the round scar.?.. I always wondered why it left such a scar when no other vaccine did.. thanks for that, I finally know...
 

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