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Smallpox

Smallpox. By: Amanda Seiler. Transmission. Smallpox is spread from one person to another through close face-to-face contact, or direct contact with infected bodily fluid or contaminated objects. You can also get it by inhaling the organism. Symptoms.

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Smallpox

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  1. Smallpox By: Amanda Seiler

  2. Transmission • Smallpox is spread from one person to another through close face-to-face contact, or direct contact with infected bodily fluid or contaminated objects. • You can also get it by inhaling the organism

  3. Symptoms • The first symptoms of smallpox usually appear 12 to 14 days after you're infected. • These symptoms start to show up after the incubation period: • Fever • Overall discomfort • Headache • Sever fatigue • Sever back pain • Sometimes vomiting, diarrhea, or both • A few days later, flat, red spots appear first on your face, hands and forearms, and later on your trunk. Within a day or two, many of these lesions turn into small blisters filled with clear fluid, which then turns into pus. Scabs begin to form eight to nine days later and eventually fall off, leaving deep, pitted scars.

  4. Prevalence This virus was eradicated and does not have a prevalence.

  5. Prevention • To prevent smallpox from spreading you must: • Isolate the infected • Vaccinate the people who were in close contact with infected • To prevent someone from ever getting it there is a Smallpox Vaccine that you can get at a young age.

  6. Treatment If the smallpox vaccine is given within 1-4 days after a person is exposed to the disease, it may prevent illness or make the illness less severe. Once symptoms have started, treatment is limited. There is no drug specifically for treating smallpox. Sometimes antibiotics are given for infections that may occur in people who have smallpox. Taking antibodies against a disease similar to smallpox may help shorten the duration of the disease.

  7. Personal consequences • Arthritis and bone infections • Brain swelling • Death • Eye infections • Pneumonia • Scarring • Severe bleeding • Skin infections (from the sores)

  8. Global consequences The speed of smallpox transmission is generally slower than for such diseases as measles or chickenpox. Patients spread smallpox primarily to household members and friends because by the time patients are contagious, they are usually sick and stay in bed; large outbreaks in schools were uncommon. The outbreak of smallpox would be slow but very dangerous, especially to city with a large density of people.

  9. Economic and social consequence People would be torn from their families and friends who become affected. A large amount of money would be spent on vaccinations and hospital bedding.

  10. Smallpox Virus

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