talking/saliva, and pus leakage from open or busted pustules. The virus also lived on bedding, clothing, dead scabs, fallen skin, and had a resistance to cold/fair weather conditions. Smallpox symptoms include burning rash, vomiting, headache, break outs of small pus filled pustules, smell of rotting flesh, scars, blindness, fever, flesh falling/rotting off, and extreme to mild pain. “By the twentieth century, hundreds of millions of people have died as a result of smallpox.”(Saffer, 8) In 1979 the…
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