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A child infected with smallpox

Variola virus (Smallpox)
Virus classification
Group: Group I (dsDNA) Family: Poxviridae Genus: Orthopoxvirus Species: Variola vera

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Historical Perspective Eradication Post-Eradication
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Differentiating Smallpox from other Diseases
Epidemiology and Demographics
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Natural History, Complications and Prognosis
Diagnosis
Diagnostic Criteria
History and Symptoms
Physical Examination
Laboratory Findings
Treatment
Medical Therapy
Primary Prevention
Outbreak Prevention
Cost-Effectiveness of Therapy
Future or Investigational Therapies
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Michael Maddaleni, B.S.

Synonyms and keywords: Variola.

Historical Perspective

Eradication | Post-eradication

Diagnosis

History and Symptoms | Physical Examination | Laboratory Findings

Treatment

Medical therapy | Primary prevention | Outbreak prevention | Cost-Effectiveness of Therapy | Future or Investigational Therapies

Case Studies

Case Studies

Related Chapters

• Virus
• Vaccinia
• Vaccination
• Mathematical modelling in epidemiology#The mathematics of mass vaccination
• Herd immunity
• CCR5-Δ32
• Pandemic
• Infectious disease
• Ebola VHFs
• Medieval demography
• Polio

Further Reading

• Fenner, Frank, Henderson, D.A., Arita, Isao, Jezek, Zdenek, and Ladnyi, Ivan D. Smallpox and its Eradication. World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland, 1988. ISBN 92-4-156110-6.
• McNeill, William H. “Plagues and Peoples.” Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., New York, NY, 1976, ISBN 0-385-12122-9.
• Preston, Richard. “The Demon in the Freezer” Random House, New York, NY, 2002, ISBN 0-375-50856-2.
• Catalog to the exhibit entitled “TO SLAY THE DEVOURING MONSTER: The Vaccination Experiments of Benjamin Waterhouse” (2000). Hosted by the Rare Books and Special Collections, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. Verified availability 2005-03-12.
• A Different View of Smallpox and Vaccination Thomas Mack, M.D., M.P.H. NEJM Volume 348:460-463
• Marie de Testa & Antoine Gautier, Une grande famille latine de l’Empire ottoman: les Timoni, medecins, drogmans et hommes d’église, in Drogmans et diplomates européens auprès de la Porte ottomane, éditions ISIS, Istanbul, 2003, pp. 235-255.
• "Hugh Walker and North Carolina's 'Smallpox Currency' of 1779," R. Neil Fulghum. The Colonial Newsletter, a research journal of the American Numismatic Society, New York. December 2005, pp.2895-2934.
• The Biomedical Scientist. September 2006, pp. 800-801.

External Links

Disease information

• Smallpox Fact Sheet from the CDC
• CDC.gov—‘Bioterrorism Agents > Smallpox Info for Specific Groups: What Everyone Should Know,’ CDC

General Information

• Vaccine Research Center (VRC) - Information concerning vaccine research studies

Smallpox in history

• WHO.int—‘Smallpox: Historical significance,’ World Health Organization (WHO)