Planning: Paragraph 1- Thesis and Introduction What is smallpox? What its biggest impacts? The fall of smallpox. Paragraph 2-4- Points, Evidence, Explanation Economics Medicine Human Paragraph 5- Conclusion (sum up what I have already said) How big the smallpox was?
Smallpox is a serious and contagious disease due to a virus that got thousand millions people killed. It is believed that smallpox have originated in Africa and than spread to China and India. In 1350 BC there was a first record of smallpox during Egyptian-Hittite war. By 5th and 7th centauries smallpox has reached Europe and a peak of epidemics was in 18th centaury. Every single country through the world had significant disease except the isolated islands like Australia. As the result millions of people died and mostly in Mexico and Europe. Almost every single country in Europe have been evolved in fighting with it and especially England that had a huge impact on economics as well as on medicine evolutionary and had a massive social impact. Overall, smallpox caused an immense suffering through the ages. About one-third or more of victims died, and many of the survivors were crippled. Everyone was susceptible, unless they previously had smallpox or had been immunized. Smallpox is contagious from when patients first begin to feel ill, about 10 - 14 days after they were exposed to infection, until the last scab falls off, about three weeks after they become ill. In the days before vaccination, it was said that smallpox was "a river that everyone had to cross". The fall of smallpox was based on people getting immune to it once they already had smallpox. The practice that was applied to immune people was called variolation- a process of exposing a healthy person to infected material from a person with smallpox in hopes of producing a mild disease that provided immunity from further infection. By