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SMALLPOX ERADICATED • In George Washington’s day, one out of every five people in London bore the scars of smallpox. George Washington himself did, although he’s usually portrayed with clear skin.

One out of every 3 children died of smallpox before their third birthday. • In the 1700s European people realized that if you recovered from smallpox, you would never get the disease again. Whenever a person came down with a mild, survivable form of smallpox, it was fashionable to organize smallpox parties. Friends and relatives would gather together in one house in order to catch the mild form of the disease together, and thus become immune to more deadly strains. • In that day, milkmaids were well-known for their clear, unpocked skin. It was common for milkmaids to catch cowpox from the animals they were milking, and an old wive’s tale said that people who had cowpox would never catch smallpox.

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--DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 70-year-old man with high blood pressure. I take a calcium-channel blocker and a diuretic to control it. I am concerned about systolic readings that can vary 10-12 points when I take my blood pressure five-10 minutes apart. A recent example: readings of 132, 143, 140 and 133, taken five to six minutes apart. My diastolic readings don’t vary more than a point or two in the mid-70s. Should I be concerned about these variations in systolic pressure? -- J.S. ANSWER: Having a patient who gets multiple values, thinks about what it means and cares enough to ask is a real pleasure for a physician.

This degree in blood pressure variation is well within the expected norm. Your systolic pressure (the top number, and the peak blood pressure while the heart is expelling blood from the left ventricle into the aorta) is about 136, plus or minus seven points. Having multiple readings increases the precision of the measurement and allows your physician to make better decisions about the effectiveness of your treatment regimen. Your systolic number, however, is in the range of prehypertension, so your doctor will be keeping an eye on that.

During the course of the day, systolic blood pressure readings can vary as much as 30 points. Even in the few minutes you took these, I often see variation as much or more than this. *** DEAR DR. ROACH: What are the methods for diagnosis and treatment of an Achilles’ tendon tear? -- L.N. ANSWER: The Achilles’ tendon connects the calf muscles, soleus and gastrocnemius, to the heel bone, the calcaneus. A complete rupture usually happens with a sudden, forceful contraction of the calf muscles, such as jumping, often in sports. The diagnosis usually is made by physical exam.

It’s not always as obvious as it might seem: Some people with a complete rupture can still walk, and some people have no pain. Still, an experienced examiner should be able to diagnose a complete tear. An ultrasound or MRI is sometimes used to evaluate a partial tear or look for similar conditions, such as bursitis or tendinopathy.

A complete tear can be managed surgically or with physical therapy and rehabilitation. A surgeon should always be consulted. Partial tears are usually treated conservatively, with PT and rehab. Surgery on the Achilles’ tendon typically requires two to three months off of work. *** DEAR DR. ROACH: I have heard that magnesium destroys vitamin B, and vitamin B keeps you warm. I am cold all the time. I take magnesium for a delayed heartbeat. Do you think that magnesium is my problem?

-- H.A. ANSWER: I also have heard that vitamin deficiencies, including B vitamins and vitamin D, can lead to intolerance of cold. However, I couldn’t find much good scientific evidence to support that, and none at all that magnesium causes problems with vitamin absorption or activity.

Low thyroid, hypothyroidism, is the first condition to come to mind with cold intolerance, and anemia is the second. Although it can’t hurt to try a B-vitamin supplement, I would recommend getting checked out for these conditions. *** Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu. To view and order health pamphlets, visit www.rbmamall.com, or write to P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. (c) 2015 North America Synd., Inc. All Rights Reserved SMALLPOX, cont’d • An English doctor named Edward Jenner was the first person to realize that people who had suffered from the relatively mild sickness called cowpox were immune to smallpox.

• Jenner first tested his vaccine in 1796. At that time, about one out of every ten people in England died of smallpox. He inoculated an 8-year-old boy with weakened cowpox germs. Six weeks later, he inoculated the boy with smallpox. The boy did not come down with smallpox. He was immune.

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• The idea of vaccination had heavy opposition at first, but began to catch on after Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Cotton Mather, and Napoleon Bonaparte endorsed the idea. Napoleon had all of his troops inoculated.

• Thanks to vaccination, the last known case of smallpox was reported in 1977.

THE STORY OF LOUIS • In the late 1800’s, a doctor named Louis was doing experiments with chicken cholera. To infect the birds, he grew pure strains of the cholera germs in his laboratory. One day by mistake he injected some chickens with cholera germs that had been sitting in a flask all summer long. He was surprised when the chickens did not get sick. He was even more surprised when he injected the chickens with a fresh, virulent strain of cholera and they still did not get sick. Putting two and two together, Louis knew he had just discovered a vaccination for cholera.

• Next he experimented with anthrax. Again, an accident intervened. A thermometer in an incubator was off kilter, though he didn’t know it. He wondered why animals injected with anthrax did not come down with the disease— and then he found he’d been getting the germs too hot. Experiments showed that if he heated the anthrax germs before injecting them, the animal would become immune. But veterinarians refused to believe him.

• Frustrated, Louis challenged veterinarians to attend a public demonstration. All manner of newspapermen, scientists, and doctors attended the test. Two groups of 25 sheep were collected on a farm outside Paris. Louis vaccinated only one group. Two weeks later, all 50 sheep were injected with a powerful strain of anthrax. After two days, all of the vaccinated sheep were fine. And all of the unvaccinated sheep were either dead or dying.

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LOUIS (Continued): • Still, Louis wondered how the anthrax was spread from animal to animal.

Talking with a shepherd one day, he noticed a piece of the pasture grass was a different color in one spot. The shepherd told him that it was where some anthrax-infected sheep had been buried the previous year. Examining the plot, Louis noticed worm droppings, which he took home and examined under the microscope. They were teeming with anthrax, which they had brought to the surface from the buried carcasses. Louis further reduced anthrax by advising people to burn anthrax infested animals rather than bury them.

• Next Louis turned his attention to a dreaded disease of humans— rabies.

Although he was unable to see the rabies germs through his microscope, he was able to prove they were there by transplanting drops of spinal fluid from rabid rabbits to healthy rabbits. The healthy rabbits would soon have rabies too.

To make a vaccine, he removed the spinal cords of rabid rabbits and hung them to dry in sterile flasks.

His first vaccination was done on a dog. He ground up a spinal cord that had been drying for two weeks, and injected it into the dog. The next day he injected a spinal cord that had been drying for 13 days, the next day one that was 12 days old, and so on. After 14 daily injections, the dog was given a dose of fullstrength rabies virus. The dog remained healthy.

• Shortly afterward, a young boy who had been badly bitten by a rabid dog was brought to Louis. Louis had only tried his vaccine out on a single dog and was reluctant to try it on a human. But the boy’s mother was certain he would die without help. Louis administered his new vaccine, and the boy was saved. The news hit the papers and the world rejoiced to see the end of a dreaded disease. The boy grew up and became Louis’s assistant. In 1940, he committed suicide rather than unlock Louis’ crypt to the invading Nazi army.

• Louis was a great scientist and performed many other medical services for humankind. Yet he’s remembered best for discovering that germs in milk cause disease— but if the milk is heated first, the germs are killed. This process is called pasteurization, after the inventor: his full name was Louis Pasteur.

• Because 3 of his 5 children died in infancy due to disease, Pasteur was inspired to spend his life trying to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. By the time Louis Pasteur died in 1895 at the age of 72, he had already saved countless lives through his discoveries.

HOLLYWOOD HYPE • When Jack Warner (of Warner Bros.) was overseeing the making of the film “The Story of Louis Pasteur” his advisers grumbled that it was “just the story of a milkman” and wanted to discard the original script. They suggested instead that it be made into a love story where Pasteur is portrayed as a student in love with the medical school dean’s daughter. They further suggested that at the end of the film a voiceover could announce, “And to this day, housewives all over the world are grateful to this man, because he invented pasteurized milk.” Paul Muni, who was playing the lead, objected so strenuously that the idea was scrapped and the original script was filmed.

For his efforts, Muni won an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1936.

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Does a Dry Nose Mean Dog Is Sick?

--DEAR PAW’S CORNER: Settle an argument for us: My wife says that you can tell if a dog is sick with an upper respiratory infection because it has a dry nose. I think a dry nose has nothing to do with a dog’s health.

What do you say? -- Barrett in Wheeling, West Virginia JONAS SALK • Jonas Salk was born in 1914 in New York City.

After attending the New York University School of Medicine, he decided to go into medical research instead of becoming a physician. He accepted a job at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine where his goal was to discover how many different types of polio virus existed.

• At the time, polio was one of the worst public health problems in the U.S. It was especially tragic because most victims were children. Polio, first described in 1835, grew steadily more prominent as the years passed. The virus is transmitted by fecal matter, mucus, and saliva. Once in the body, it travels to the brain or spinal cord where it causes paralysis of varying degrees.

• Polio didn’t receive national attention until 1921 when Franklin D. Roosevelt was struck down by the disease at the age of 39. He spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair because of it, and ended up founding the March of Dimes to help fund research for a vaccine.

• Salk’s research led him to begin experimenting with a polio vaccine. Although there was already a vaccine available for polio, the vaccine used living but weakened strains of polio, which sometimes ended up infecting the vaccinated person with the very disease it was designed to prevent. Salk was the first to experiment with a vaccine that used polio virus strains which had been killed before being administered so there was no way for the vaccine to cause the illness. Salk’s wife and three sons were among the first volunteers to be inoculated with his vaccine.

• Over the course of seven years, Salk involved 20,000 doctors and health care workers, 64,000 public school workers, 220,000 volunteers, and nearly 2 million school kids in his trials of his new ‘killed’ vaccine.Meantime, polio was raging. In 1952, nearly 60,000 cases were reported in the U.S., killing over 3,000 people and leaving over 20,000 survivors with some form of paralysis. Polio killed more people that year than any other communicable disease.

• When the success of the new vaccine was officially announced on April 12, 1955, Salk was instantly hailed as a hero, becoming a national celebrity overnight. When he was asked in a televised interview who owned the patent to the vaccine, Salk replied: “There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”

• According to one historian, the announcement led to widespread celebration: “People observed moments of silence, rang bells, honked horns, blew factory whistles, fired salutes, took the rest of the day off, closed their schools, drank toasts, hugged children, attended church, smiled at strangers, and forgave enemies.”

• By the summer of 1957, 100 million vaccines had been distributed throughout the United States. By 1962, polio was nearly extinct, with only 910 cases reported that year. Today, global vaccination efforts by organizations such as UNICEF and the World Health Organization have almost completely eradicated polio from the planet.

• The World Health Organization estimates that there are between 10 to 20 million polio survivors worldwide. In 1977 there were 254,000 persons living in the United States who had been paralyzed by polio. As one of the largest disabled groups in the world, polio survivors helped spur the modern disability rights movement through campaigns for the social and civil rights of the disabled.

• Jonas Salk subsequently spent many years researching a vaccine for HIV. In 1960, he founded the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. He died from heart failure at the age of 80 on June 23, 1995.

DEAR BARRETT: While a dry nose (one that feels dry when you touch it, versus cool and damp) may be a sign that your dog is under the weather, it’s not the most reliable indicator. Some dogs’ noses feel dry all the time, and some noses vary day to day. Some noses are wet and runny due to allergies.

It’s better to look for other symptoms if you’re worried about your dog’s health. Frequent sneezing or snorting, pawing at the nose, nasal discharge that’s heavier or thicker than normal, behavioral changes (lethargy, lack of enthusiasm for everyday events like going outside) or lack of appetite. More serious symptoms include labored breathing, retching or gagging, weight loss, a deep cough or extreme lethargy.

If your dog has any of these symptoms, or you’re not sure and just worried about it, contact your veterinarian, who may ask about specific symptoms or behavior changes. Your vet may have you bring your dog in to check and make sure it’s not developing an illness. Or, if your dog is ill, the vet can determine what type of illness and what might be causing it, and treat it appropriately.

Send your questions or tips to ask@pawscorner.com. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

RABIES • The word ‘rabies’ comes from the Latin word meaning madness. Because the virus infects the spinal cord and brain of its victims, it causes raging insanity, followed by paralysis. Victims die of respiratory failure.

• Globally, 90% of rabies cases start with the bite of a rabid dog. However, in the U.S., only 5% of rabies cases come from dogs because rabies vaccines are so widely available.

• Rabies can’t go through unbroken skin. People can get rabies only via a bite from a rabid animal or through scratches, abrasions, or mucous membranes in contact with saliva or brain tissue from a rabid animal. The rabies virus is short-lived when exposed to open air. It can only survive in saliva and dies when the animal’s saliva dries up.

• Because the rabies virus is transmitted through saliva, the virus survives by making sure that the saliva is loaded with infection and that the animal is driven to bite whatever it comes in contact with. To ensure the saliva is thoroughly infected, the throat muscles are paralyzed, which prevents the animal from swallowing (which would dilute the virus). Attempts to drink water in spite of raging thirst cause painful spasms of the muscles in the throat and larynx. Infected animals therefore foam at the mouth because they cannot swallow, and they show a fear of water. This is why rabies has also been called “hydrophobia” meaning “fear of water.”

Authentic Mexican Food • Worldwide, an estimated 26,000 people died from H o u rs: rabies in 2010, down from 54,000 in 1990. The maMonday - Friday jority of the deaths occurred in Asia and Africa. India 11am - 3pm & has the highest rate of human rabies, primarily be5pm - 8pm cause of stray dogs, whose number has greatly inS a t u rd a y 11am - 8pm creased since a 2001 law forbade the killing of dogs.

1125 N Main St. • About 400 to 500 domestic pets are infected with Sheridan, WY rabies every year in the U.S. Surprisingly, cats get 307-673-0056 rabies more often than dogs. In 2010, 303 cats got rabies, versus only 69 dogs. 90% of all rabies cases reported come from wild animals.

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RABIES (Continued): • Over the past 10 years, rabies has killed only a total of 28 people in the U.S. • Most U.S. deaths now result from bat bites, which may go unnoticed by the victim and remain untreated. Rabid bats are found in all 48 contiguous states. Other animals most commonly infected include raccoons, skunks, and foxes. Small rodents, rabbits, and possums rarely get rabies.

• Rabies is a disease confined to mammals. Birds can get rabies, but they don’t show symptoms and always survive.

• Agencies in Canada, France, and Switzerland successfully combat rabies by air-dropping bait that is infused with rabies vaccine. Wild foxes and raccoons eat the bait and inoculate themselves. Switzerland is now virtually rabies-free after leaving chicken heads laced with vaccine out for foxes to eat.

• The incubation period usually lasts from three weeks to three months but can stretch out to one to five years before the first symptoms appear, depending on how long it takes the virus to migrate to the nervous system. After symptoms present themselves, the average survival time until death is about four days.

• If a person exposed to rabies undergoes rabies treatment immediately, survival is almost certainly guaranteed. But if the victim waits until symptoms set in, the mortality rate is nearly 100%. Some people with rabies have been saved by being put into an induced coma until their body was able to combat the disease.

• Today a series of rabies shots – which used to entail 20 painfully deep injections into the abdomen – now consists of four not-very-painful shots in the arm.

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