Smallpox started out as cowpox -- a minor disease caught primarily by milkmaids. And it mutated into smallpox in an estimated eight months. Before cowpox, it is believed that it was a plant disease -- the cows ate the plants and the pustules showed up on the cows' bellies and udders. Gives you an idea of how a minor disease can turn into a major pandemic in quick order,
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