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Title: Smallpox - Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment


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Smallpox - Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment
  • - Specialty Care Clinics

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What is Smallpox?
  • Smallpox is a contagious, disfiguring, and
    usually deadly disease that has affected humans
    for thousands of years. Naturally, happening
    smallpox was wiped out worldwide by 1980 the
    result of an unprecedented global immunization
    campaign.
  • Samples of the smallpox virus have been retained
    for research purposes. And advances in synthetic
    biology have made it possible to make smallpox
    from published amino acid sequences. This has led
    to concerns that smallpox can someday be used as
    a biological warfare agent.
  • There is no cure or treatment for smallpox. A
    vaccine could prevent smallpox, but the risk of
    the vaccine's side effects is too high to justify
    routine vaccination for people at low risk of
    exposure to the smallpox virus.

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Symptoms Of Smallpox
  • The early symptoms of smallpox generally appear
    between 10 and 14 days after you are infected.
    During the incubation period of seven to
    seventeen days, you look and feel healthy and
    cannot infect others.
  • Following the incubation period, a sudden
    beginning of flu-like signs and symptoms occurs.
    These include
  • Fever
  • Overall discomfort
  • Headache
  • Severe fatigue
  • Severe back pain
  • Vomiting, possibly

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Causes Of Smallpox
  • Directly from person to person - Direct
    transmission of the virus needs fairly prolonged
    face-to-face contact. The virus could be
    transmitted through the air by droplets that
    escape when an infected person coughs, sneezes,
    or talks.
  • Indirectly from an infected person - In rare
    instances, the airborne virus could spread
    farther, possibly through the ventilation system
    in a building, infecting people in other rooms or
    on other floors.
  • Via contaminated items - Smallpox could also
    spread through contact with contaminated clothing
    and bedding, however, the risk of infection from
    these sources is less common.
  • As a terrorist weapon, potentially - A
    intentional release of smallpox is a remote
    threat. However, because any release of the virus
    can spread the disease quickly, government
    officials have taken numerous precautions to
    protect against this possibility, like
    stockpiling the smallpox vaccine.
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Contact Us
  • Website https//specialtycareclinics.com/
  • Contact No. 469-545-9983
  • Email hugosutton020_at_gmail.com  

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