) Who; introduced to Europe by Mary Montagu B) Where; China and India C)When; 4th century China, 7th century India History of the disease: (include recent research and development of cures and treatments. U.S and Russia will not destroy there cultures of small pox for fear of a bio war. Scientists must decide if they want to destroy the last remaining viles of the small pox virus--amid claims to human achievememt, arroganceIII. Causes: Usually passed between two people through droplets from the nose or mouth which reproduced in the lymphoid tissue.IV. Symptoms: After about a 12 day period, victims usually developed high fevers, chills, nausea, aches, and a rash that would fill with pus and sometimes swelled severely.V. Treatments : Most of the victims died, if not scabs formed and eventually fell off leaving scars and perment pits in the flesh. Some victims went blind.VI. Cure (if curable) There is no specific treatment for small poxVII. Updated info; The World Health Organization has declared the small pox virus Free.Hemorrhagic smallpox; about one hour before death. Thick hemorrhage occuring in the mouth and from the lungs. Smallpox virus is extremely contagious in the airsmallpox also called VARIOLA, one of the world's most dreaded plagues until 1977, when it was declared eradicated. The disease was described as early as 1122 BC in China and is referred to in ancient Sanskrit texts of India. The mummified head of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses V (died c. 1156 BC) bears evidence of the disease.Smallpox is an acute infectious disease caused by a virus, characterized by fever and, beginning about two days later, an eruption that, after passing through the stages of papule, vesicle, and pustule, dries up, leaving more or less distinct scars. The characteristic eruption may be so profuse as to be confluent, especially on the face, or so scanty that the lesions are missed altogether.Modifications, both toward fewer lesions and toward their...
