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Shoutout: I ship Variola (Smallpox) and Measles
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Shoutout: I ship Variola (Smallpox) and Measles
This is one of my current Biggest Obsessions™
A man with smallpox blisters covering his chest and arms. Copied from an unknown book. Smallpox, or variola, was an infectious, highly contagious disease caused by a Variola virus. Due to vaccination campaigns in the 19th and 20th centuries, the World Health Organization certified its eradication in 1980.
Pox viruses are the largest and the most complex of all viruses, belongs to the family poxviridae and causes a number of diseases, are large enough to be seen under the light microscope. Poxviruses grow in Chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) and in tissue culture, produce pocks on the CAM in 48-72 hours....
“Showing upon the face and cheeks a form of the disease commonly known as ‘black smallpox.’ (...) The swelling and disfigurement of the face present a most striking appearance.”
A Practical Treatise on Smallpox by George Henry Fox, 1903
“Showing a few thick crusts remaining upon the face with numerous dull red spots from which the crusts have fallen.”
A Practical Treatise on Smallpox by George Henry Fox, 1903
“Figs. 1 and 3 show the dried pustules remaining in the thickened skin of palm and sole after the crusts have fallen elsewhere. Fig. 2 shows the superficial desquamation which follows the falling of the crusts, producing rings of partly detached epidermis.“
A Practical Treatise on Smallpox by George Henry Fox, 1903
“Fig. 1 shows umbilicated pustules with an intense edema of the foot, considerably increasing in its size and causing much pain. Fig. 2 shows the epidermis raised in a large, irregular patch by the confluence of pustules.”
A Practical Treatise on Smallpox by George Henry Fox, 1903
“Showing numerous incipient papules upon the face. Those upon the forehead were the first to appear and are most prominent. the cheeks present a characteristic leathery appearance.”
A Practical Treatise on Smallpox by George Henry Fox, 1903