WARNING

SMALLPOX

CAUSED BY

• The virus Variola major
• Other variola can cause it too
• Spread by contact
• Spread by being near the infected

SYMOTOMS AND SIGNS

• Fever
• Overall discomfort
• Headache
• Severe fatigue

SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS P2

• Vomiting
• Diarrhea
• Red pus-filled blisters
• Severe back pain

OTHER SYMPTOMS

• Hemorrhaging
• Blood poisoning
• Blindness
• Death

SURVIVIORS

• They have scars
• But they are immune to the disease
• Also an ulceration on the eye could cause blindness

IN THE PAST, TO PREVENT SPREDING,

• The infected were separated from the healthy
• The people who came in contact were vaccinated
• There were hospitals only for smallpox
• Like this one "The Smallpox Hospital"
• It was on an island off NYC to isolate it

ERADICATION

• Isolate cases swiftly
• Vaccinate people who've come into contact
• The last case of wild smallpox was in Somalia in 1977

DEATH TOLL IN 18th CENTURY EUROPE

• 60 million

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