Smallpox (cont.)

Medical Author:

Christopher J Hogan, MD

Coauthor:

Fred Harchelroad, MD, FACMT

Coauthor:

Thomas W McGovern, MD

Medical Editor:

Jerry L Mothershead, MD

Medical Editor:

Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD

Medical Editor:

Raymond J Roberge, MD, MPH, FAAEM, FACMT

Multimedia

Media file 1:Characteristic smallpox lesions on the arms and legs of an adolescent. Photo used with permission from the World Health Organization.

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Media file 2:Skin lesions (day 7) on an unvaccinated infant. Reprinted with permission from Fenner F, Henderson DA, Arita I, et al: Smallpox and Its Eradication. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 1988: 10-14, 35-36. Photographs by Arita.

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Media file 3:Ordinary form of variola minor smallpox in an unvaccinated woman 12 days after onset of skin lesions. Reprinted with permission from Fenner F, Henderson DA, Arita I, et al: Smallpox and Its Eradication. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 1988: 10-14, 35-36. Photographs by Arita.

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Media file 4:Adult with smallpox (variola major) with hundreds of pustular lesions distributed with more on arms and face than on trunk. Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center slide file.

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Media file 5:Hemorrhagic-type variola major lesions. Death usually happens before typical pustules developed Reprinted with permission from Herrlich A, Mayr A, Munz E, et al: Die pocken; Erreger, Epidemiologic und klinisches Bild. 2nd ed. Stuttgart, Germany: Thieme; 1967. In: Fenner F, Henderson DA, Arita I, et al: Smallpox and Its Eradication. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 1988: 10-14, 35-36.

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Media file 6:Bioterrorist Agents. Signs and symptoms to watch for. Chart courtesy of North Carolina Statewide Program for Infection Control and Epidemiology (SPICE), copyright University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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