Small Pox

Jesse Gardner

Some Questions you might have on

Small Pox :
1. What is Small Pox?
Small Pox is a viral disease, and you will get a fever and pustules usually leaving permanent
scars.
2. What are the Symptoms of Small Pox?
Some symptoms are high fever, chills, headache, vomiting, and serve back pain.
3. How can you get small pox?
Small pox is very contagious. That means the virus can spread to others. It spreads through
tiny drops of an infected person's saliva when the person coughs, talks, or sneezes.
Smallpox usually passes from person to person during close, face-to-face contact. It
generally spreads more slowly and less widely than some other viral diseases, perhaps
because transmission requires close contact and occurs after the onset of the rash.
4. Where does small pox come from?
Smallpox is caused by exposure to the variola virus. The variola virus emerged in human
populations thousands of years ago.

More Questions you might ask about

Small Pox :

1. How long has small pox been around?

Small pox has been around for 3,000 years and there is still no
cure or treatment for small pox but there is a vaccine but doctors
rarely try it on people because its too risky.
2. How many people had died from small pox?
Every single year 2 million people die from small pox.
3. Where and when have particularly deadly outbreaks of this
disease occurred?
Small occurred everywhere but the main places are Somalia,
Ethopia, Dijibouti, Kenya, Yemen, and Democratic Yemen