SMALLPOX: DEADLIEST DISEASE EVER?

ALL ABOUT SMALLPOX

• Smallpox is caused by the Variola major virus.
• The "Variola" bacteria is shaped like a brick with a tail.
• This bacteria is one of the most fatal bacteria in history on mankind.
• Smallpox is a serious, contagious, and sometimes fatal disease.
• There is no specific treatment for smallpox except vaccination....

WHERE DID SMALLPOX COME FROM?

• This disease accumulated about 10,000 years ago.
• It came from an African Rat poxvirus.

SYMPTOMS:

• Fever
• Head and Body ache
• Sometimes vomiting

PREVENTION

• No prevention.
• Only can be cured with vaccination
• Antibiotics help as well

EFFECTS ON THE BODY

• You get small "pocks" all over your body.
• You have a fever and body pains
• Vomiting

DEATH TOLL:

• 400,000,000 people
• That's more than any other infectious disease put together