Smallpox (also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera) is a highly contagious disease unique to humans.Smallpox is caused by either of two virus variants named Variola major and Variola minor. The deadlier form, V. major, has a mortality rate of 3–35%, while V. minor causes a milder form of disease called alastrim and kills ~1% of its victims. Long-term side-effects for survivors include the characteristic skin scars. Occasional side effects include blindness due to corneal ulcerations and infertility in male survivors.

 Small pox is back !!! Kolkata ( formerly Calcutta – home of the Bengali babus), West Bengal, India. And Bangladesh. In the Indian subcontinent.

Smallpox was responsible for an estimated 300–500 million deaths in the 20th century. As recently as 1967, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that 15 million people contracted the disease and that two million died in that year. After successful vaccination campaigns throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the WHO certified the eradication of smallpox in 1977. To this day, smallpox is the only human infectious disease to have been completely eradicated from nature. However, there are recent reports of smallpox in Asia as reported by the Times of India(June 2007).

India Friday termed the West Bengal’s alert over return of smallpox, 30 years after it was eradicated from the global map, as a false alarm.

The West Bengal government Thursday had issued a warning in all its districts along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. West Bengal Director of Health Services Sanchita Bakshi said border security agencies have been asked to monitor if anyone is entering India with fever and rashes, one of the symptoms of the disease.

‘There is no need to panic as this is a false alarm,’ Health Secretary Naresh Dayal told reporters in New Delhi.

Dayal said, his ministry had interacted with the World Health Organisation (WHO), which assured them that there is no outbreak of smallpox either in Bangladesh or Myanmar.

Authorities in the health ministry said the whole scare germinated after a message from the government to a few border states about a possible outbreak of smallpox in neighbouring Bangladesh.

Cherian Varghese, a senior health coordinator of WHO-India, said that vigilance is always good but there is no such outbreak in Bangladesh. ‘We have no knowledge of it. Neither people nor authorities should not worry,’ he told IANS.

West Bengal government meanwhile informed Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) airport authorities about the reported danger and asked to screen the passengers arriving from Bangladesh and Myanmar.

State health department sources said any passenger arriving with fever and rashes from these two countries would be quarantined and tested.

A high alert has been sounded in the Indo-Bangladesh border districts. However, Bangladesh authorities have not yet confirmed any case of smallpox and said they have been investigating the situation.

Smallpox is a contagious human disease, which is believed to have been eradicated from India over three decades ago. The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared India a smallpox free country in 1977. The last case of smallpox in India was reported in May 1975 in Bihar when around 1,400 people were infected.

Smallpox is caused by the attack of two types of viral strains – variola major and variola minor. The early symptoms of the disease are high temperature, body ache and headache. In a few days, red spots appear in the mouth and tongue and break open into sores. Later the spots become fluid-filled bumps that turn into pustules.

KOLKATA: An alert has been sounded along West Bengal’s border with Bangladesh following reports of smallpox outbreak in Rajshahi district in northern Bangladesh. The reports, however, are yet to be officially confirmed.

The administration in the districts adjoining the border have been informed and the Border Security Force asked to step up watch on movement of people across the border, Chief Secretary Amit Kiran Deb told The Hindu here on Thursday.

“The reports have reached us by word of mouth. We expect some sort of communication from the Government of India if there is any official confirmation of such an outbreak in Bangladesh,” Mr. Deb said.

What is small pox ? How do I prevent smallpox ? Is there a cure for smallpox ?

What is variola and vaccinia ? Is there a vaccine ? Where is Edward Jenner ? 

Read my next post to know.

 But it may be a false alarm .

India Friday termed the West Bengal’s alert over return of smallpox, 30 years after it was eradicated from the global map, as a false alarm.

The West Bengal government Thursday had issued a warning in all its districts along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. West Bengal Director of Health Services Sanchita Bakshi said border security agencies have been asked to monitor if anyone is entering India with fever and rashes, one of the symptoms of the disease.

‘There is no need to panic as this is a false alarm,’ Health Secretary Naresh Dayal told reporters in New Delhi.

Dayal said, his ministry had interacted with the World Health Organisation (WHO), which assured them that there is no outbreak of smallpox either in Bangladesh or Myanmar.

Authorities in the health ministry said the whole scare germinated after a message from the government to a few border states about a possible outbreak of smallpox in neighbouring Bangladesh.

Cherian Varghese, a senior health coordinator of WHO-India, said that vigilance is always good but there is no such outbreak in Bangladesh. ‘We have no knowledge of it. Neither people nor authorities should not worry,’ he told IANS.

West Bengal government meanwhile informed Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) airport authorities about the reported danger and asked to screen the passengers arriving from Bangladesh and Myanmar.

State health department sources said any passenger arriving with fever and rashes from these two countries would be quarantined and tested.

A high alert has been sounded in the Indo-Bangladesh border districts. However, Bangladesh authorities have not yet confirmed any case of smallpox and said they have been investigating the situation.

Smallpox is a contagious human disease, which is believed to have been eradicated from India over three decades ago. The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared India a smallpox free country in 1977. The last case of smallpox in India was reported in May 1975 in Bihar when around 1,400 people were infected.

Smallpox is caused by the attack of two types of viral strains – variola major and variola minor. The early symptoms of the disease are high temperature, body ache and headache. In a few days, red spots appear in the mouth and tongue and break open into sores. Later the spots become fluid-filled bumps that turn into pustules.

 

I saw this file OfcpfSvcs.exe running in the processes tab of Windows Task manager.

Looks suspicious – I’m not going to trust any file which I can’t confirm is a system file. Especially if it’s run by the user or admin and not system.

Maybe its a malicious virus which gets into all your pen drives and hangs your computers and destroys your data. Or maybe it’s just a harmless system file which runs in some computers alone. Because I checked inanother computer with the exact same configuration of software and this was not there.

Definitely a suspicious file – probably a virus. I’m killing it.

Die OfcpfSvcs.exe die.

There – gone. Now I can safely run the virus scan a see if the antivirus can detect it.

Here, use Norton Antivirus and AntiSpyware free versions from Google. It’s not a time limited trial ersion. Select the software you want from Google Pack. – Firefox, Norton Antivirus, Google Earth, .. Use the antivirus well.

Antivirus software is absolutely essential . Use it.

How to delete / remove a testimonial from Orkut Account profile

Recently (and now too) many viruses spread in Orkut.com which sent testimonials and scraps in Portuguese with links to the viruses’ website (always disgiused as a tinyurl.com or urlcut.com or my-own.net other short url) ( the extensions being rndx, muyt1, asd1 , yompks, …)

Contagion – Worms spreading via Orkut.com

Well, the problem is that many people don’t know how to delete a testimonial from their orkut profile / account.

How to delete / remove a testimonial
from Orkut Account profile

1. Open your profile page in orkut. (Yes, of course I know your profile page !)
2. Scroll to the bottom of the page.
3. Click “view all” (http://johndasfundas.blogspot.com)
   
4. It goes to the next page with an option “remove“ for each testimonial.
5. Click “remove” It goes “poof” without a warning.
6. Tell others about this site http://johndasfundas.blogspot.com

You would also ant to know how to Delete an Orkut testimonial. Why ?

Why would anyone want to delete an orkut testimonial ?. Because it can have viruses.

Testimonials and Scrapbooks affected by virus are spreading via Orkut

But leave all that. Maybe you also would like to know what happens to your fortune in orkut. To get more interesting fortunes – add “in bed” to the fortune that is generated for you in orkut. Some peple also advise adding “with a duck” to get insane fortunes. But what takes the icing of the cake ae the geniususes who want to add “in bed with a duck to the fortune”  :enutrof s’yadoT – Fix Reversed fortune and recent visitors in orkut home page There wasonce a problem of reversed fortunes which could be corrected by changing he encoding setting of Firefox.

Want Orkut scraps and testimonials ? Sites like http://j4fun.net

Want to remove the Brontok virus ?

It’s really nasty.

Disables regedit (registry editor).

Removes folder options (yup, it just disappears !)

Makes hidden files hidden (that’s important coz it’s hidden too)

It shuts down the computer when you’re downloading antivirus software !

How do you remove it ?

Use this software – a small antivirus.

http://www.compactbyte.com/cav/cav-0.94.exe

http://www.compactbyte.com/cav/cav-0.94-package.zip

Here is the list of viruses it removes :

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