Small pox

             Remember having the Chicken Pox when we were little? If you never had
             Chicken Pox, it consists of having several small bumps that cover the entire body
             over and over, they itch, some would hurt, and all you would hope for would be
             for them to go away. Chicken Pox would last an average healthy person a few
             days. With Small Pox a person can run a high fever for up to eight days before the
             skin pustules will even appear (Concise).
             Small Pox is known scientifically as Variola, because it exists as one main
             strand, Variola Major. Small Pox is considered a virus, and is highly infectious.
             Small Pox can be spread airborne, directly, or even indirectly. Variola enters
             through the respiratory tract, then multiplies the other internal organs, the rash or
             "pox" signifies the peak stages of the infection (Britanica).
             The virus can live out side of the body for long periods of time. The virus
             has been found to survive in bales of cotton for 18 months. This was part of the
             problem in Europe, was that patients in the hospitals were getting contaminated by
             the bed linens. However, the most common way it was spread was airborne. Small
             Pox could be contracted from a carrier's breath, or saliva (Grolier). The thing
             about Small Pox is that the virus was very sneaky. A person who had been
             vaccinated for the virus could still contract it, of course they would show no
             symptoms, and the virus would not directly affect them. Although this same
             could unknowingly spread the virus to someone else who has not been vaccinated
             The vaccination of Smallpox came from an English physician named
             Edward Jenner. Jenner had noticed that milk maids who had contracted Cowpox
             earlier in their lives were immune to the Smallpox virus (Concise). Therefore he
             decided to test his hypothesis. He took the lymph from Cowpox pustules on the
             hands of the milk maid, Sarah Nelmes, then he scratched
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