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| ==Smallpox as a bioterrorism agent==
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| [[Image:Screenshot 2023-04-14 152252.png|thumb|600px|right|This flowchart depicts a mechanism of action in case an anthrax bioterrorism event were to occur. The photo credit for this image belongs to Gregory Zaric phD [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0272989X07312721].]]
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| Variola major is the virus that causes smallpox. Symptoms of smallpox include fever and the characteristic skin rash of pox, and it has a 30% mortality rate. The mortality rate of smallpox for pregnant females was very high, up to 70% for those unvaccinated. Ocular variola and resulting blindness was common in smallpox patients in Asia. Smallpox in children caused elbow and knee joint problems in around 2% of unvaccinated children. Those who survived having smallpox were left with many scars on their body.
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| ==Section 2==
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| ==Section 3==
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| ==Conclusion==
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| <br><br>Authored for BIOL 238 Microbiology, taught by [https://biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/slonc.htm Joan Slonczewski], 2023, [http://www.kenyon.edu/index.xml Kenyon College]
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