[ALARMA!]

Smallpox is an infectious disease unique to humans, caused by either of two virus variants.
The disease is also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera.

[Kim]

Idle curiosity: I was in the last age group in the US (I'm 40 now ) that got small pox vaccinations. Do they still give them in other countries?

[sil]

i thought this was contagious..so why do they have healthy-looking kids and babies next to the infected people??

[Chef von todes]

Originally Posted by sil ↗

i thought this was contagious..so why do they have healthy-looking kids and babies next to the infected people??

Good point, but maybe when the picture was taken they just got near that person, to show some difference

[poontang?]

Shit. First time I have seen these pictures.

[MUSTRUM]

So how curable is it?

[burford]

bad shit man

[vixenaimee]

as far as im aware Smallpox has been wiped off the face of the planet, I used work for NHS in uk and that what they claim anyways

[Brainplague]

Originally Posted by vixenaimee ↗

as far as im aware Smallpox has been wiped off the face of the planet, I used work for NHS in uk and that what they claim anyways

Publicly, probably. But unfortunately there are some strains that are kept by certain countries for biological weapons.

EDA: Good Post! I always wondered what Smallpox looked like.

[poopie]

you can get smallpoxes in infection state,,but when its off set,,than your safe,,I had ,,have 1 pox hole very small.im 50,got it in 1957.