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Patient reports fever started several days before blisters appeared Based on the information would you suspect chickenpox or smallpox?
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∙ 12y ago
Smallpox, because the rash is centrifugal on the patient.
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∙ 12y ago
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Can you say viruela for chickenpox?
No, "viruela" is not Spanish for chickenpox. Viruela is smallpox, while varicela is chickenpox in Spanish.
Is chickenpox related to smallpox?
No. Chickenpox did not come from smallpox they are 2 separate viruses.
Can you get smallpox from chickens infected with fowl pox?
No. Chickenpox is species specific, meaning that humans get chickenpox.
How are chicken and smallpox different?
chicken pox are mostly on the chest and face and smallpox's are mostly on the face and legs. smallpox is considered eradicated and chickenpox is not.
What are the different kinds of pox?
Smallpox, Chickenpox, Cowpox, Monkeypox, Plumpox...
How did smallpox survive through history?
Edward Jenner made a vaccination out of pus from one of the blisters of a person with smallpox
What are the old world?
smallpox, measles, chickenpox, influenza, malaria and yellow fever
What are The Old World Pathogens?
smallpox, measles, chickenpox, influenza, malaria and yellow fever
What kind of itchy bumps turn into a rash an spread?
Smallpox, Chickenpox, Monkeypox, Cowpox
What is the treatment for patients diagnosed with smallpox?
Smallpox has been eradicated so it does no exist; ergo need not be cured. Chickenpox cannot be cured - you just need to go through it.
What is the difference between cowpox and smallpox?
SmallpoxVery serious and contagious disease coming from virusesCowpoxEruptive skin disease that's contracted from direct contact with an ulcer on the teat of a cow
When did chickenpox vaccine become available?
No one knows where the disease started, but some believe it was first written about by a Persian physician in the 9th century. Giovanni Fillppo in Italy in the 1500s. What's more certain is that in the 1600s, an English doctor named Richard Morton named what he thought a variation of smallpox. Then William Heberden in the 1700s proved that chickenpox was different from smallpox.
