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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (44008)	9/14/2002 10:32:47 PM
From: kumar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<As far as I know it's [Smallpox] not an airborne disease' That is what I understand. it requires physical contact & body fluids to spread. I also believe that vaccinations that many recieved many years ago, may not be effective any more. BWTHDIK? I aint no doctor! cheers, kumar

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (44008)	9/14/2002 10:52:32 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

As far as I know it's not an airborne disease, and by the time sometime becomes contagious they are also quite sick. That's not the way I understand it. It's not "airborne" like Legionnaires disease, which can be caught from air conditioning systems, but it can be caught very easily from people who have it, who may not be symptomatic. Someone who looks perfectly healthy can spread it, and it will keep spreading as infected people come into contact with those who are not infected. An infected person has about a three day window from the time he/she becomes contagious to the time he/she shows the signs of the disease so strongly that it would frighten amd alert those who saw him/her. (It looks gross. You are all covered with pustules.) Honestly, Nadine, I find the threat of smallpox to be terrifying. Maybe because I am part American Indian. American Indians split off from Europeans and Asians before smallpox became endemic in the Old World. People from the Old World have a 30% mortality rate. People from the New World have over a 90% mortality rate. My husband and I are both mostly European but part American Indian - him on his father's side, me on both my mother's side and my father's side. My kids were never inoculated. I don't like their odds.