Smallpox

Small Pox is an infectious disease, so you'd think there would be a high risk, but, a vaccination for Small Pox was created and now Small Pox has been almost 100% eradicated except for a few chemical labs that dot the world.

There is no effective medicine. A vaccine is used to prevent it. Jenner made the first ever vaccine for smallpox!

In October 1562 Elizabeth I caught smallpox, but survived it.

94% of the Inca Population

They had no immunity. It was an old world disease.

It was responsible for between 300 and 500 million deaths in the 20th century and during European exploration many people died of it including Native Americans. It is thought that the fatality case rates for Native Americans was between 80 and 90%.

Smallpox is a serious, contagious, and sometimes fatal infectious disease. There is no specific treatment for smallpox disease, and the only prevention is vaccination. The name smallpox is derived from the Latin word for "spotted" and refers to the raised bumps that appear on the face and body of an infected person. There are two clinical forms of smallpox. Variola major is the severe and most common form of smallpox, with a more extensive rash and higher fever. There are four types of variola major smallpox: ordinary (the most frequent type, accounting for 90% or more of cases); modified (mild and occurring in previously vaccinated persons); flat; and hemorrhagic (both rare and very severe). Historically, variola major has an overall fatality rate of about 30%; however, flat and hemorrhagic smallpox usually are fatal. Variola minor is a less common presentation of smallpox, and a much less severe disease, with death rates historically of 1% or less. Smallpox outbreaks have occurred from time to time for thousands of years, but the disease is now eradicated after a successful worldwide vaccination program. The last case of smallpox in the United States was in 1949. The last naturally occurring case in the world was in Somalia in 1977. After the disease was eliminated from the world, routine vaccination against smallpox among the general public was stopped because it was no longer necessary for prevention.

There is no actual cure for Smallpox. It was eradicated in 1979, so no one gets it anymore. However, many scientists believe that if an exposed person was vaccinated within a certain time frame (4 days, I think) they would not break out with the disease.

This is at present an academic issue because smallpox has been eradicated and is not expected to return, unless it is released from some biological weapons stockpile (which would be an immense tragedy, were it to happen). But in the past, there were lots of people who did survive smallpox. Historically, the disease had a roughly 50% mortality rate. Half the patients would die, half would live. The disease is very hard for the immune system to attack because it has a method of inducing host cells to grow tubes reaching to other cells, through which the virus can travel without being exposed to the blood and the while blood cells which would attack it. However, the human immune system is quite good at what it does, and in some cases can even overcome smallpox. The only way you can help out your immune system is by getting vaccinated in advance. Once you actually have the disease, vaccination can no longer help. So, if you survive smallpox it will be due to a cellular level response, rather than a conscious level response. There is not much you can do about it. But again, you are not going to get smallpox, the disease has been eradicated.

because of very bad symptoms

All parts of the skin is affected in Chickenpox. Although most of them are in the trunk area of the patient. But the lesions can be everywhere.

Small pox and chicken pox are to different things! Please do not confuse them, chicken pox are a minor virous that people today get. Small pox on the other hand is a very dangerous thing that may led to death if not treated. It's not as dangerous and does not effect people like it did...but they are not the same thing

i think that's a joke or somethin. no body calls small pox chicken pox

i dont know coz the internet wont tell me but this website is a con coz a someone added this

The smallpox vaccine is an injection to prevent one from contracting smallpox. It has been used to help the body to develop immunity against the disease.

The people did not have immunity against the disease

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40% of the victims died

There were no antibiotics nor vaccines at the time. The only thing would be what are called supportive measures such as keeping warm and drinking fluids. The average life expectancy was 25-35. Many children did not live to see age five.

These days there is no smallpox in this world. But hundered years ago, small pox epidemics were not at all common. People used to be very afraid of coming near someone suffering from small pox since they were afraid of catching the disease. However, there was one group of people who did not have this fear. The people would provide nursing care for the victims of small pox. These people were Milkmaids. One day a famous physician named Edward Jenner realized that the Milkman who earlier suffered from cowpox did not catch small pox during epidemics. Cowpox is a very mild disease. So he thought that if the virus of cow pox is injected into the person, he will not suffer from Small Pox. So he started giving the injections of cow pox to people as a vaccine.

Cow pox is a very mild disease as compared to Small Pox.

You know that any vaccine is prepared by injecting the weakened form of virus of any particular disease into the person. E.g - For the vaccine of Chicken Pox. The virus of Chicken pox is weakened and injeted into the body of person. So, he does not have any chances of getting chicken pox in future because when the weakened form of virus of chicken pox is injected into our body our immune system is able to fight it. So, next time when the Chicken Pox virus enters our body our immune system recognises it and able to fight it. So we not get that particular disease.

Similarly, Edward Jenner started injecting the cow pox virus because it is a very mild disease that can be easily cured. So the person who had suffered from cow pox did not get small pox.

No, small pox is a different virus and cannot be caused by Varicella zoster, the virus causing chicken pox.

Small pox is a disease caused by the variola virus. Symptoms include, a characteristic rash, especially on face, arms and legs. The rash mainly starts the 2nd or 3rd day. The resulting spots become filled with clear liquid, and then fill with pus. Then form a crust, which eventually comes off. Until the crust falls off you are contagious.you also get headaches backaches and a high fever. So small pox and chicken pox are completely different.

you are right because you can never get chicken pox and small pox at the SAME time but you may get small pox and then you can get a case of chicken pox. but if you get chicken pox dont worry about getting small pox because small pox is just a bunch of blisters on your body. but the same about both of them is that there are both contagios. so if you touch some one that has smalll pox or chicken pox you have a 78% chance of cathing it and a 22% chance of not getting that disease.

The easy answer is, it depends. As with any disease, people respond and recover in different ways and in different periods of time. I received the vaccine in June 2006 and had the typical nasty, blistery lesion that grew to about the size of a nickle over a period of about 10 days. It then gradually dried and reduced in size for another 2 weeks before the scab fell off. Total time to heal: ~30 days. It is important to note that the blister and scab material is infectious and we were advised to treat it as biologically hazardous waste. All bandages used to cover the vaccine site and the final scab had to be put in ziploc bags and brought in to the medical clinic for proper disposal.

Some people have existing immunity, either from previous vaccination or exposure to the virus, and they will have little, if any, reaction to the vaccine. I have seen people get a tiny little blister that heals up and disappears in less than a week and also people who have no reaction to the vaccine at all. Some others have had the scab hang on for more than 6 weeks.

At the other end of the spectrum, a complication of the vaccine can occur (particularly in immune compromised individuals or young children) that results in disseminated vaccinia (the virus used in the vaccine). This causes a rash that spreads from the original vaccine site (can cover the whole body), it can get into the eyes and cause occular damage but the most severe complication is if it enters the brain. It is important to seek medical attention if a rash develops anywhere other than the vaccine site. It can take months to recover from these complications. This is why it is important to keep the vaccine site covered and treat all bandages and the scab as biological waste. There have been cases of people unintentionally infecting their spouses, children and other contacts after receiving the vaccine.

the decimation of the native American population.

In 1979 Small pox was declared eradicated by the World Health Organization.