Smallpox

Smallpox: Also known as variola, a highly contagious and frequently fatal viral disease characterized by a biphasic fever and a distinctive skin rash that left pock marks in its wake.
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Smallpox vaccination is a relatively safe, effective preventative against smallpox. However, in a number of individuals, smallpox vaccination can result in untoward effects and adverse reactions. Most are totally benign, if frightening in appearance.
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Smallpox is one of the most devastating of human diseases. In its 12,000-year history, it has probably killed more people than any other illness, including the plague. Yet no naturally occurring smallpox cases have been reported for nearly 25 years.
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Smallpox is caused by a virus that may be airborne or spread by direct contact. After an incubation period of about two weeks, fever, aching, and prostration occur, lasting two or three days.
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Smallpox Lesions
Smallpox is a contagious disease caused by a virus. Smallpox virus has been eradicated worldwide through successful vaccination and treatment programs, and now exists only as a stored virus in a few research centers.
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Smallpox
Medically Reviewed On: Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Because the risk of having an adverse reaction to the vaccine was higher than the risk of developing smallpox, routine vaccination for the disease ended in 1972 in the United States.
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Smallpox
Dr Rob Hicks
This highly infectious disease was once one of the most feared diseases, killing an estimated 300 million people worldwide in the 20th century alone. We look at its symptoms and how sufferers are treated.
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smallpox
A viral disease that was once highly contagious. Characterized by high fever, vomiting, and blisters and sores on the skin. Vaccination has eliminated this disease.
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SMALLPOX"1 (Variola)
SYMPTOMS"It takes 12-14 days for the disease to develop after exposure.
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Smallpox is caused by the variola virus. It is spread from person to person by droplets of saliva (coughing and sneezing). The virus causes fever and a rash. It is fatal in about 1 out of every 3 people who get the infection.
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Atopic dermatitis and smallpox vaccination
People with skin conditions such as atopic dermatitis have a high risk of developing a severe rash called eczema vaccinatum if they receive the smallpox vaccine or touch another person’s vaccination mark ...
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This led to the global eradication of smallpox, the elimination of polio from the Americas, and has almost eliminated tetanus, diphtheria, mumps, and the horrible congenital rubella syndrome.
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VACCINIA: The poxvirus that causes cowpox and is used for vaccination against smallpox. It is used as a vector in HIV vaccine research to transport HIV genes into the body.
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During the French and Indian War in the 18th century AD, British forces under the direction of Sir Jeffrey Amherst gave blankets that had been used by smallpox victims to the Native Americans in a plan to spread the disease.
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Most cause illness such as the common cold, sinus infection, warts, smallpox, measles and others types of disease when they invade. Fortunately, the human body is not defenseless from these assaults.
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