Essay On Smallpox

Maybe Smallpox Isn't So Small Bumps, fever, and acute pain, these are the symptoms of the virus smallpox. So with this being said, maybe smallpox isn't as small as everyone says it is. Smallpox is a virus that was eradicated in the 1980’s because the virus could lead to death if not treated. During it’s prime, Smallpox was able to kill 3 out of 10 people who caught it. However, when milkmaids caught cowpox, the two viruses counterattacked each other and eventually Smallpox was no longer a threat. Even though there is no evidence of smallpox transmission in the world, it may still linger.
The symptoms of smallpox are feeling febrile, vomiting, headache, severe fatigue, severe back pain, and overall discomfort. After three through four days,
The way it can travel by a long face to face encounter, items that have been touched or been around a infected person. Also another cause that can happen is in rare cases it can get into a building ventilation system and spread to different floors. It could also possibly become bio weapons and spread to destroy nations.
There are currently no treatments for the virus smallpox because it has already been eradicated. It was eradicated when scientists found out that milkmaids who caught cowpox were not infected by Smallpox. They noticed that the cowpox cells fought smallpox cells. So they created a vaccine that a person took that fought off smallpox. The survival rate of smallpox is 3 out of 10 people
The virus Smallpox was a disease which killed 3 out of 10 people who had it. If scientists had not discovered that milkmaids with smallpox were not infected because they had cowpox then it may have become a worldwide pandemic. Many believe there are no traces of the virus smallpox but, the government still has samples so they can study the virus. The Variola family is a very dangerous species which is where the Smallpox virus got its