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What Are The Types Of Smallpox

The acute contagious disease known as smallpox is from the orthopoxvirus family. All forms of this disease are spread through inhalation and it localizes in the throat and mouth. It surfaces as a rash over the body and then blisters. The disease shows in two main forms throughout human history. The less deadly form, with a one per cent fatality rate, is called variola minor. The deadliest form is called variola major, which has had a fatality rate of thirty per cent in it’s victims.

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Is There A Vaccine For Smallpox

Smallpox is an infection that is highly contagious. Smallpox can be spread through coughing, sneezing or contact with the scabs from the rash. Signs of Smallpox include a high fever, fatigue and body aches. A few days after these symptoms occur a rash will break out all over the body. Over the next few weeks the red spots from the rash will fill with pus, scab over and eventually fall off.
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When And Where Was Smallpox First Discovered

It is believed that smallpox originated 10,000 years ago in Africa. Since then it has managed to spread to the rest of the nations of the world. It is recorded in history that King Pharaoh Ramses V died from a smallpox infection in the year 1156 BC. There are also other popular occurrences of the virus found in China and India. These occurrences all happened during the BC periods.

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What Is The Mortality Rate Of Smallpox

A highly contagious disease, smallpox is caused from the variola virus. The disease can be traced back over 3,000 years to ancient Egypt and India. It has been known to kill as many at 30 percent of the those infected. The remaining survivors are often heavily scarred with pock-marks and some suffer permanent blindness.

Two forms of smallpox exist: variola major and variola minor. Both varieties produce similar skin lesions. The mortality rate of variola minor is only 1 Read the rest of this entry »

What Is Smallpox And How Does It Spread

Smallpox is a now eradicated infectious disease that can be potentially deadly. Over the years with the help of immunizations the infectious disease is now eliminated It is caused by the variola virus which comes in two forms which are variola major and variola minor. Variola major was the cause of the fatal form of smallpox, which had a fatality rate of 30%. The minor form is a less fatal form of the disease with a fatality rate of about 1%.

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