- Hello Jeff - According to Promed the WHO has confirmed
that the outbreak of vesicular disease in the Northern frontier of Pakistan,
and involving children, is Chickenpox.
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- They are awaiting lab results, but because children are
involved, it appears to be chickenpox.
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- This does NOT however, answer my question and that of
the Pak Journalist, Mr. Talpur, regarding the suspected smallpox cases
in adults last year, April 2001 as well as the vesicular disease that caused
blackening of hands and feet in the area of Moro on the Indus river this
year, April 2002.
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- I have written to Promed, CDC and WHO about those cases
and have not received satisfactory determination. Promed said that they
did not have followup on last year's suspected smallpox cases. No confirming
or denying.
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- As you know, I have put a timeline together based on
the suspected smallpox cases and our Dark Winter exercises and anthrax
attacks.
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- Mr. Talpur and myself have received no information from
the doctor who cared for the suspected smallpox cases last year, and no
information on the Moro cases of black disease.
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- As you may note the children's cases of chickenpox in
Pakistan and India have been diagnosed, lab results to follow. So, why
is there NO denial of smallpox in the April 2001 cases of adult illness?
Over a year? Where are the labs? As for the Moro case of 10 dead and 25
ill, also, by now there should be lab test results. Where are they? No
denial of Ebolapox or associated illness?
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- I expect to hear that the suspected cases of smallpox
in children in Kurdish town are also chickenpox.
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- There is still no diagnosis on the Turkish vesicular
mystery illness. I believe that both children and adults are ill.
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- Will keep you posted.
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