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Understand Smallpox : What is Smallpox?
Smallpox is a contagious viral illness caused due to variola virus. It has infected human beings for thousands of years and can be a disfiguring and often deadly disease. Smallpox..
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Smallpox Prevention : How to Prevent Smallpox?
There is no treatment for smallpox. Vaccination is the only way to prevent it. The disease has been eradicated by the intensified plan launched by WHO, to eradicate..
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Smallpox Treatment : What is the Treatment of Smallpox?
There is no treatment for smallpox once a person contracts the disease. Treatment includes medications to relieve the symptoms of cold and flu in the disease, supportive therapy..
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Understand Smallpox : Smallpox: When to seek medical help?
The disease has been eradicated so it is highly unlikely that you have smallpox. But due to the threat of its use as biological warfare or accidental exposure to the virus while..
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Medical & Safety Tips : Vaccination and Children
Talk to your kid before giving injection A 4 year old is always worried on a doctor’s visit about getting a shot. A child who is aware that he or she is going to get an injection..
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Understand Smallpox : Who is at Risk of Smallpox?
Smallpox has been eradicated by the intense global immunization campaign and the last naturally occurring case of smallpox was reported in 1977. Currently people..
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Understand Smallpox : What are the Causes of Smallpox?
Smallpox is caused by infection with variola virus. After infection, the virus divides inside your body (initially in the lymph nodes and then in the spleen and bone marrow)...
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Understand Smallpox : Risk Factors for Smallpox
Risk of naturally occurring smallpox is not there as the disease has been eradicated by the intense global immunization campaign and the last naturally occurring case of smallpox..
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Understand Smallpox : What is the expected duration of Smallpox?
Incubation period is defined as the time from being infected to the appearance of symptoms. After becoming infected with the variola virus (the virus that causes smallpox), the..
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Health News : Vaccination without Needle?
If you were always afraid of needles, there is good news for you. A vaccination device which does not require you to endure needles has been developed by Australian scientists,..
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