Overview

1. What is smallpox?
2. How can it get spread?
3. Can you tell if you have smallpox?
4. Is there anything to worry about?
5. Is smallpox a bioterrorism agent?
6. What to do if you have smallpox?
7. Is the vaccine safe?
8. Is there a way to manage an outbreak?
 Smallpox
• It is a illness caused by the variola virus
• There are blisters that have puss inside
• Smallpox is not related to chicken pox and
monkey pox
• There is no new cases in the US since 1949
and in the world since 1978
 How Smallpox can get spread?
• It spreads through a person’s saliva, coughs,
talks, or when someone sneeze
• It can also spread through fluids coming
from the blisters, from blankets or anything
that touches the person’s skin
 How can you tell if
you have Smallpox

• The doctor could tell by the way of rashes on the

body because they are different than chickenpox
• The first couple of symptoms are fever, malaise, 
head and body aches, and sometimes vomiting
• The blisters look different than chickenpox
 Is the vaccine safe?
• There would be some side effects that would be present
with any one who wanted to take the vaccine.
• The side effects of the vaccine is soreness around the
vaccination site, fever and body aches, and in some rare
cases people would die from the vaccine
• If the person has the vaccine, the virus could spread to
other people because it is still considered a live virus
• The person who gives the vaccine would puncture the skin
15 times in a few seconds with a needle that has the virus
on it.
 Is Smallpox something to worry
about?
• Yes, because it is a disease and can spread
very quickly
• People should only worry if there is an
outbreak
• Everyone thinks they should get the vaccine
but it could be as harmful as the disease
• The fatality rate of smallpox is 30% of all
people who are infected
 Is there a way to manage an outbreak?
There is a way to manage an outbreak. The way is
not to go to your doctor by saying that you
might have smallpox bur not sure. The only
way to be very sure is if you have rashes
allover your body and they would start to puss
from 6-7 days after the rashes form. There is a
way to manage an outbreak is if every is going
to stay calm and would not rush to the doctors
because they would have to deal with real
episodes. There is a team of people who had
the vaccine and are able to help get people into
isolation without causing harm to anyone else.
But, those people are needed for cases witch
could not wait.
Pictures of Smallpox
 Work Cited
• http://www.aafp.org/afp/20030501/1927.html
• http://www.kidshealth.org/PageManager.jsp?dn=familydoctor&lic=44&ps=307&cat_id=&article_set
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• http://familydoctor.org/x2403.xml
• http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/smallpox/index.asp April 15, 2004
• http://www.who.int/emc/diseases/smallpox/factsheet.html#Transmission April 15, 2004
• http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/smallpox/smallpox-images/smallpox2.htm April 16, 2004
• http://www.wfu.edu/users/turnaw2/smallpox%20rash.jpeg April 24, 2004
• http://www.worldemergency.com/Videos/Presentations/Pgs/spinfoandprevent.htm April 24, 2004