An acute, highly contagious, often fatal viral disease and characterized by high fever and aches with subsequent widespread eruption of pimples that blister, produce pus, and form pockmarks. Smallpox has killed millions of people but has not made anyone in the world sick since 1977.
Where we talk about Smallpox
- Just the Facts Did vaccines eradicate smallpox?
- Just the Facts Did smallpox vaccines save lives?
- Toolkit A brief but spectacular history of vaccines
- Blog Can We Get Rid of Measles Once and for All?
- Blog Ep. 80: Mpox with Dr. Kuppalli
- Just the Facts Did vaccines save us?