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How is smallpox passed to one person to another?
One can be infected by smallpox if a victum of smallpox has coughed in the air. They can be infected by smallpox by exposing an opened wound. You can become infected if you breath the air that is shared by someone that has smallpox. Its passed many different ways. One can be infected by smallpox if a victum of smallpox has coughed in the air. They can be infected by smallpox by exposing an opened wound. You can become infected if you breath the air that is shared by someone that has smallpox. Its passed many different ways.
Can you get smallpox from an infected scab?
No.
Is smallpox contagious?
Yes. Smallpox spreads by airborne contamination, meaning that people became infected by inhaling droplets exhaled by an infected person. Fortunately, smallpox has now been successfully eradicated since 1979, and was the first disease for which a vaccine was developed (by Edward Jenner in the 1700s). You are at no risk of catching it.
How did Jeffrey Amherst use smallpox as a weapon?
He approved the plan of giving blankets infected with smallpox to the natives.
Why is your smallpox scar pink and scaly?
that probably means that its infected
How did you get smallpox?
direct contact with sick person or with infected blankets etc
The plight of smallpox helped defeat the rebellion of what man?
Smallpox infected blankets were used to defeat the Native American opposition to conquest. The Native Americans had no natural immunity to smallpox.
How did smallpox start spreading?
The Americas gave First Nation's people blankets that were known to be infected with smallpox. After that, the disease is highly contagious and can travel through the air. Due to this, the smallpox disease spread like wildfire, killing a vast majority of the First Nation's people
Identify one of the stages of smallpox when an infected patient is considered infectious?
incubation
What disease caused millions of native americsns to die?
smallpox infected blankets
What is worse smallpox or cowpox?
Smallpox looks like a whole bunch of little raised dots on your skin. Normally starting on your hands,face,and feet, then spreading. A couple days later it will burst and bleed and scab over. once the scab falls off your are scared for life.
How can a person get smallpox?
Smallpox was spread by inhaling the airborne virus, by direct contact with infected persons, and in some cases, by the virus being on bedding. After a program of vaccinations, the World Health Organization has announced that smallpox has been eliminated- first disease ever eliminated. Nobody gets it now. Roosters and chickens do not carry smallpox- it was a humans only disease.
