Smallpox

WHAT DOES IT AFFECT?

• Smallpox affects the skin cells.
• Smallpox produces bumps on the skin.
• Creates a fever.

Smallpox

• Smallpox is a deathly infection.
• Smallpox causes a vastly rash and a towering fever.
• Smallpox cause bumps on you skin.
• The virus variola causes smallpox.

SYMPTOMS OF SMALLPOX

• Smallpox symptoms are similar to flu symptoms.
• You have a high fever.
• You are very tired(fatigued.)
• You have headaches and backaches.
• You will have rash with red sores(seen in picture.)

CAUSES OF SMALLPOX

• Contact with the infected person
• In contact with an infected persons cough or sneeze
• Sharing of clothing, sheets,ect.
• The variola virus

DEATH TOLL

• Cases of Smallpox-1921
• Above 100,000 cases of smallpox were journaled
• End of 18th Century-Death Toll
• 400,000 Deaths were documented

SMALLPOX PREVENTION

• Stay away from people with smallpox
• Get the vaccine

SMALLPOX SPREAD EASILY.

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ERADICATION OF SMALLPOX

• The smallpox disease had no treatment.
• Although certain medicines can help symptoms.
• The last case of smallpox is believed to be in 1949.

SOURCES

• "Epidemics of the Past:Smallpox 12,000 Years of Terror." Infoplease. Infoplease, 2002.
• Web. 10 Dec. 2013.
• epidemics/smallpox-12000-years-terror.html>.

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• "Smallpox Disease Overview." CDC Smallpox. Bt.cdc.gov, 30 Dec. 2004.
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• "KidsHealth." What Is Smallpox? Ed. Steven Dowshen, MD. Kidshealth.org, Jan. 2013.
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