(April 19, 2019 at 6:05 pm)wyzas Wrote:(April 19, 2019 at 5:28 pm)Fireball Wrote: That's true, and IIRC the reason was because if one was exposed to chicken pox they were able to handle small pox better (as in living through it).
Um......... no. Two different viral classes, there is no cross immunity. But that very well could have been early folklore because the lesions look similar.
Additionally, in the timeframe I'm referring to, smallpox wasn't really much of a thing any longer. I'm pretty sure they stopped routine vaccinations in the early 70s.
