Comparison Of Smallpox: A Deadly And Contagious Disease

Smallpox, a pandemic for thousands of years, was a very deadly and contagious disease. First, you could catch smallpox by face to face contact, the last case found in the United States was in 1949. You could also catch the virus by an excess bodily fluid. Smallpox was very deadly because there was not a vaccine to cure the virus completely. There were vaccines to help slow down the process that smallpox did to your body, possibly preventing loss of life.