Smallpox

Disease Definition: An acute and infectious disease caused by a virus and now almost completely eradicated. Smallpox was characterized by high fever and large sores on the body that leave scars. It was effectively eradicated through vaccination by 1979.

Disease Symptoms and Treatments: Symptoms are flu-like. They include High fever, Fatigue, Headache, Backache, A rash with flat red sores.There is no proven treatment for smallpox. People with the disease can benefit from intravenous fluids and medicine to control fever or pain as well as antibiotics for any secondary bacterial infections that may occur. If an infected person gets the smallpox vaccine within 4 days after exposure to the virus, it may lessen the severity of illness or even prevent it. The majority of people with smallpox recover, but death may occur in up to 30 percent of cases. Those who do recover are often left with disfiguring scars.

Disease Statistics: Health Survey conducted in USA states shocking facts that around 2.0% of total Population self-reported having Smallpox in the country. Coming to the statistics in numbers it is estimated around 11,344 are the victims of Smallpox in USA .It is not only constrained to one region but it has victims all over the world.