Smallpox

This is very good question! Now there is no small pox. Before eradication of the small pox, there used to be confusion between the small pox and chicken pox. The blisters of smallpox typically used to be uniformly erupted at a time. The eruptions of chicken pox comes up in crops. The eruptions of small pox used to come from the basal layer of the skin. So there used to be scars all over the body of the patient, who used to survive the attack of the disease. The chicken pox does not leave the scar in normal course, unless there is secondary bacterial infection. The disease used to be more in severity as compared to chicken pox.

Smallpox is primarily transmitted through respiratory droplets, making it airborne. It spreads when an infected person coughs or sneezes, releasing the virus into the air, where it can be inhaled by others. Smallpox is not food-borne or water-borne, as it does not spread through contaminated food or water sources.

On an island of of europe

England started it and passed it to some people could not handle it and died.:(

Inoculations are done to protect you from harmful diseases.

Smallpox, because the rash is centrifugal on the patient.

In most cases, any competant adult can refuse any vaccine, but doing so puts that person at increased risk of the disease the vaccine is intended to prevent, and if a large enough minority refuse, the risk to the entire community is increased. This is why school system may refuse to admit students who have not been vaccinated against specific diseases.

Vaccinations are very important in keeping all of us healthy. When a certain number of a population does not get vaccinated, an otherwise uncommon disease can spread rapidly. There was a measles outbreak in the summer of 2008 that spread across 15 states, for example. (See the related links for this news story).

Polio, measles, yellow fever, and many other diseases are now virtually gone because of vaccines. Any risk of reaction from a vaccination is far outweighed by the protection against deadly diseases that vaccination provides.

Vaccines are safe- reactions are rare, and usually only consist of redness and swelling at the area of injection. Reports that vaccinations are linked to Autism are unfounded- there is absolutely no evidence that there is any link.

Vaccines are required to enroll in school in the United States. Some people keep their children out of school to avoid vaccinations.

See the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website (under related links) for much more information about vaccinations.

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