Smallpox by Jerico Pasinos https://padlet.com/jpasinos1/avx54ujidtzoovgs Padlet on Disease en-us 2020-06-09 05:03:20 UTC 2020-06-09 12:19:39 UTC hello@padlet.com What is smallpox? jpasinos1 https://padlet.com/jpasinos1/avx54ujidtzoovgs/wish/618663407 Smallpox is an eradicated virus that used to be contagious, disfiguring and often deadly. Smallpox is caused by infection with the variola virus. The virus can be transmitted: Directly from person to person. ... The virus can be transmitted through the air by droplets that escape when an infected person coughs, sneezes or talks.

]]> 2020-06-09 11:54:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jpasinos1/avx54ujidtzoovgs/wish/618663407 History of Smallpox. jpasinos1 https://padlet.com/jpasinos1/avx54ujidtzoovgs/wish/618675375 Naturally occurring smallpox was destroyed worldwide by 1980. It has been believed to appeared in 10 000 B.C, at the time of the first agricultural settlements in northeastern Africa.]]> 2020-06-09 12:03:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jpasinos1/avx54ujidtzoovgs/wish/618675375 What are the Symptoms of Smallpox? jpasinos1 https://padlet.com/jpasinos1/avx54ujidtzoovgs/wish/618686888 Signs and symptoms of smallpox may include:
  • sudden onset of high fever which may be recurrent.
  • malaise (general feeling of unwellness)
  • widespread skin rash – flat spots which change into raised bumps then firm fluid filled blisters which then scab (see image)
  • severe headache.
  • backache.
  • abdominal pain.
  • vomiting.
  • diarrhoea.
]]> 2020-06-09 12:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jpasinos1/avx54ujidtzoovgs/wish/618686888 Treatment and Cures for Smallpox jpasinos1 https://padlet.com/jpasinos1/avx54ujidtzoovgs/wish/618691170 There's no treatment or cure for smallpox. A vaccine can prevent it, but the vaccine's side effect risk is too high to justify routine vaccination for people at low risk of exposure to the virus.]]> 2020-06-09 12:13:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jpasinos1/avx54ujidtzoovgs/wish/618691170 Interesting facts and statistics jpasinos1 https://padlet.com/jpasinos1/avx54ujidtzoovgs/wish/618693294 While an infection of the variola minor virus would lead to death with a probability of less than one percent, the case fatality rate of the variola major virus has been estimated to be around 30 percent. The specific way a smallpox infection would lead to a patient's death remains unclear.

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