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Smallpox
Smallpox is a serious, contagious, and sometimes fatal disease caused by the variola virus.
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What are the symptoms of smallpox?
symptoms of smallpox · fever, body aches, headache, chills, and, particularly, backache. Over half of people with smallpox experience chills and vomiting.
High fever,Fatigue,headaches,and backaches also you will get all sweety
Fever, body aches, chills, vomiting the worst was death
Dying.
The symptoms of smallpox are very much like those of a fever.
This can be; a high temperature, tiredness and body aches.
well they might be different but they are just a scientfic term. like chicken pox!
Smallpox vaccination is VERY IMPORTANT TO DO!!!!!!
How can smallpox spread from one person to another?
(All answers are correct). Aerosols generated by a patient sneezing or coughing, Droplets during face-to-face contact with a patient & Direct contact with the patient's scabs.
What are the simptoms of smallpox?
The symptoms of the disease start with body ache and sometimes vomiting with a high fever over 101o. Over the next few days, pus-filled blisters develop over large portions of the body.
The vaccine side effects are usually limited to itching, fever, body ache, swollen lymph nodes, sore arm, mild rash as well as a rash at the injection site.
Smallpox has been eradicated - thanks to vaccination campaigns.
The only truly effective "treatment" for smallpox is vaccination. Receiving a vaccination within 3 days of exposure should severely lessen or completely prevent symptoms.
Other than vaccination, other treatments are mostly supportive, such as wound care.
Is smallpox curable or preventable and how is it?
Smallpox can be prevented in the vast majority of cases with a vaccine. Vaccination can be protective for up to several days after exposure to smallpox. Smallpox has been prevented through the effective Intensified Smallpox Eradication Programme, initiated by the World Health Organization.
On 26 July 1978, WHO announced the eradication of the smallpox strain Variola Minor. The more deadly strain, Variola Major, had been eradicated several years earlier, in 1975. While some other treatments available in the US today might treat smallpox infection, none have been fully (if at all) tested against smallpox.
Why milkmaid were renowned being pretty?
They were renowned for being pretty because they were immunized against smallpox.
What is an Aboriginal cure for Small Pox?
Small Pox arrived in Australia with white European settlement in 1788. Aboriginals had no knowledge of the disease and therefore had no "cure".
Can mosquitoes spread smallpox?
It is very unlikely that they would carry smallpox. However, I have found that some of the most unlikely things can happen.
Why did the cowpox antibodies prevent people from getting smallpox as well?
Cowpox was a less harmful version of smallpox. So their bodies created antibodies for the cowpox which in turn could kill the smallpox cells.
In what year did the last known case of smallpox occur?
The last known natural case was in Somalia in 1977. Since then, the only known cases were caused by a laboratory accident in 1978 in Birmingham, England, which killed one person and caused a limited outbreak. Smallpox was officially declared eradicated in 1979.
