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To: skinowski who wrote (521)	6/8/2003 12:49:59 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) of 1070

I've seen comments that smallpox vaccine (actually, as you know, vaccinia, which is not smallpox/variola, nor cowpox/(can't find the Latin name), but some unintentional/unwitting recombination) will confer immunity to monkeypox. I wonder whether having had chickenpox (varicella) will confirm some sort of immunity, as well. Monkeypox didn't really become a problem until the 1970's, leading some to speculate that smallpox vaccine conferred immunity and ceasing to vaccinate for smallpox had something to do with the prevalence of monkeypox. content.nejm.org My guess would be that population pressures forced humans into geological areas that they had previously avoided, and into eating foods that they had previously avoided, and that closer contact due to motor vehicles and cities allowed greater transmission. Just as eating "bush meat" (apes) caused AIDS and eating civets caused SARS.

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