Not smallpox, monkey pox. Eight cases have shown up in the UK, only one of them directly traceable to a person recently returning from a rural area of Nigeria where the disease is endemic. A few cases have shown up in Germany and four in the US, none traceable to travel exposure, monkeys, or other patients. And get this, three quarters of the patients were ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ males who engaged in unprotected sex with large numbers of partners.
If one goes back far enough in medical history, there was discovered an alleged connection between HIV, (HTLV-2), injected polio vaccines, and monkey pox.