they caught it by high fevers and blisters, and when they traded with the British.
The smallpos were created by a mutation of a different virus. So the first person who got smallpox dint really got smallpox but something else.
Smallpox arrived in America with European settlers. Sometimes smallpox tainted blankets were given to different tribes by traders to annihilate the native Americans.
Airborne
Smallpox is a INFECTIOUS DISEASE because you can catch it easily and it is common for people to catch it.
James Phipps didn't catch smallpox because he'd already caught cow pox
No one knows who first got smallpox.
For the French in New France they were saviours. They were sent to fight against the first nations, but not a single native American was found shot by them - in fact they did not meet a single one, as the tribes that had fought against the white invaders of their land by that point in history had died from smallpox.
Smallpox was on the First Fleet in the form of bottles of dried innoculation materials. Such material was used to protect people against smallpox before Jenner's vaccination became available. No case of active smallpox disease was reported during the First Fleet voyage. However a seamen from the First Fleet caught smallpox (from local natives) over a year after arrival at Sydney Cove.
smallpox was the first virus that was vaccinated for
by giving people something that will help them not to catch the smallpox disease
polio
Edward Jenner discovered that farmers who had caught cowpox did not suffer from smallpox. He then started injecting people with small doses of cowpox and he observed that they did not catch smallpox. He had created a vaccination for smallpox. :D
on 25 Jan 1734
a boy
a jab