Smallpox

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Signs of Smallpox After you are exposed to smallpox it usually takes 7 to 17 days until the illness begins. Smallpox usually begins with fever, body aches, and weakness on day 1.

Then on day 2-3: small, round blisters appear and spread on the face, arms, legs, and inside the mouth

Day 7: the blisters turn larger and fill with pus

Day 12: the blisters crust over; stomach pain and confusion can also happen

Week 3-4: the blisters turn into scabs and fall off, leaving scars on the skin.

This information is from sfcdcp.org

Here is a hand covered with

blisters (pimples)

This is one of the signs of smallpox . At this point it's

day two or three.

Treatments

Treatments

Here is the vaccine. It is called the smallpox vaccine.

The picture below is the liquid its self.

Tribes Smallpox Affected

Mandan tribe (located in North Dakota)

Hidatsa tribe (located in North Dakota)

Arikara tribe (located in Nebraska)

Wampanoag (located in southeastern of Massachusetts )

Abenaki (located in Canada and Mexico)

This is the epidemic of 1775-1782

This was a very devastating time for all of the tribes.

Three questions for you

If you had smallpox what would you do?

If smallpox was a biological weapon how would you control it?

What would you do if your town or city had smallpox?

Resources

The first resource was sfcdcp.org

The second is classroom.synonym.com

The final one is The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich.

Please type smallpox to learn about it.

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Antonio and Olivia