they were finding out about immunity and immunisation

It has been both over the course of its history. It was a pandemic in 1870 when it infected most of the united kingdom. It has been an apidemic several times when it hit smaller communities particularly hard.

Smallpox is a INFECTIOUS DISEASE because you can catch it easily and it is common for people to catch it.

Ultimately, smallpox and other diseases like measles killed off most Native American populations, making it very easy for Europeans to take over the New World. The natives had no resistance to diseases that the Europeans had, and were much more suspectible.

Smallpox is the name of an infectious disease caused by a virus called variola virus, a member of the genus Orthopoxvirus, in the Poxviridae family.

The treatment for smallpox was to get a vaccination.

The smallpox vaccine comes from cows. Most diseases you a weakened form of the disease. However the smallpox vaccine is brought from cowpox. (closely related to smallpox but not as dangerous). You cannot get this vaccine anymore and if you did it would result in a bad reaction.

That would be Dr. Edward Jenner.

he saw milkmaids

Yes, Polio has been found also in monkeys

They lived, but usually with bad facial scars and scaring in other affected body areas.

Both smallpox and molluscum are caused by pox viruses. Smallpox is lifethreatening, while molluscum is benign.

Smallpox is spread when a person breathes it in and out. The virus gets inside the cells lining the throat

No- it is an entirely different disease, but both were very devastating to the population when epidemics broke out, killing millions of people.

Antibodies to cowpox virus

Smallpox is a strictly human disease, it is not carried by animals. It is also extinct in the wild, although laboratory samples still exist.

According to Wikipedia, smallpox can be spreaded by direct contact with infected skin. Coughing, sneezing, speaking and even breathing can spread the virus through saliva droplets expelled from the mouth.

Probably a lot of them, but the first one that comes to my mind is the Susquehannock of the Pennsylvania region.

Part of the story involves General Amherst and Colonel Bouquet deciding to distribute to local American Indians blankets from Fort Pitt (which had a smallpox outbreak while it was under seige). I don't recall immediately if that was the cause of the Susquehannock case, but there is significant documentation on this actually happening. The original letters between Amherst and Bouquet still exist. You can find more about what happened around the web.

chicken pox

He noticed that milkmaids who had suffered from cowpox didn't suffer smallpox, this lead him to believe that the cowpox prevented smallpox. He tested this on James Phipps, he infected the boy with pus from a milkmaids cowpox boil, he caught cowpox. Jenner then infected the boy with smallbox, but Phipps didn't catch it. This was the first inoculation. Jenner was given grants to find other inoculation's, but failed as he was unsure why immunity was given. It wasn't till Pasteur's (anthrax and rabies vaccines) time that other vaccines were discovered.

Technology helped Smallpox because they invented the needle to cure it with, at least that's what my primary school teacher taught me!! Yeah i think they did invent the needle because a young boy was tried out with it first to see if it would work.