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What is smallpox ??​

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It’s a highly contagious infectious disease that is cause by the variola virus, individuals will develop a fever and a progressive skin rash, 3 out of 10 people who have it die and those who survive will have permanent scars in the face or even left blind.
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an acute contagious viral disease, with fever and pustules usually leaving permanent scars. It was effectively eradicated through vaccination by 1979.
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