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=Small Pox= ||< Stage 1: The Variola virus has spread to the victim's body either throught the breathing system or throughleaked pus. Start of incubation period, 2-3 weeks. ||
 * < Newton, David. __Sick!__, 4. United States: Gale, 2000. ||< Stage 2: Patient feels the following symptoms. Fever, headache, backache, fatigue, weakness, abdominal pain, vomiting, pain the arms and legs. The symptoms then fade. ||
 * < **Stages of the disease** ||< Stage 3. Fever comes back and flat red rashes appear on face and limbs. Rashes then fill with clear fluid, then fill with pus. Patients die from respriatory or cardiac arrest at this stage, or from infection. ||
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 * Try to find a short effective quote ||< Stage 4: The patient slowly recovers and the pustules become scabs and fall off after 10-14 days. ||
 * < **Ideas**
 * I thought that the bad smelling pus was revolting
 * The pictures of pockmarked skin was powerful
 * sorry of the victims
 * surprised that there is no way to treat it. ||< Other: Patients often felt like their skin were on fire in stage 3 and the pustules gave off a smell of rotting flesh. ||

=Small pox= || Treatment, there is no way to treat this virus. The only thing to do is make the patient comfortable and hopes the disease fades away. || ). There are several other kinds of vaccines. ||
 * **Citation** Saffer, Barbara. __Small pox__. Farmington Hills: Lucent books, 2003. || Prevention: we now use vaccines that WHO (World Health Organization
 * **Vaccines** || Vaccine 1: They would extract some of the liquid from a pustule and put in on the scratched skin of another patient. Either the patient would get a mild case of small pox, or get a case of the full blowin disease. ||
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 * Try to find a short effective quote || Vaccine 2: They give patients a mild case of cow pox. Even though the viruses aren't exactly te same, getting cowpox woudld give you some protection against small pox. ||
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 * Images/video to support this || Other: There is a debate going on about whether we should destroy the last to samples of small pox. One is in Moscow, Russia. The othe one is in Georgia, Atlanta. ||