Today (21 May 65) Prof. Dr. Yong Phu Worawan, the head of the Center specializes in clinical virology. Department of Pediatrics Faculty of Medicine Chulalongkorn University In another post on the topic of “smallpox virus”, the Poxvirus family of viruses causes disease in both humans. and in many animals such as cows, monkeys, birds and chickens
Viruses found in animals may cross to humans, such as cowpox, monkeypox, human smallpox, and is most severe in humans. and very easy to contact person to person But when crossing the smallpox virus into humans, transmission is more difficult. must be in close contact And the severity of the disease is much less than smallpox.
Smallpox can cross over to humans. For example, a milking woman cowpox infected In the days of Dr. Edward Jenner, more than 200 years ago, Dr. Jenner found that a milk woman infected with cow pox Then when the outbreak of smallpox people This milking woman did not contract smallpox. Therefore, it is the origin of the cow smallpox infection. To be planted for people and can prevent smallpox for people. by people infected with cow smallpox It was just a small pustules. and disappeared with the scar
Chicken pox is a different virus. Not related at all
The viruses in the pox group, bovine pox, and human pox are very similar. can prevent human smallpox and also found that it should be able to prevent smallpox as well
Thailand, but instilling abscesses for everyone especially from birth And this disease can be controlled and gone, so the vaccination in Thailand was discontinued around the year 1974 onwards, and the World Health Organization announced that smallpox was gone in B.E. 1980 and the world has stopped vaccination since then.
Almost all Thai population born before 1974 have had vaccination. or observed from the scarring of the abscess a flat scar But we still have the BCG vaccination against tuberculosis. The scars of the TB vaccine are more convex.