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smallpox

vr.tr.smallpox · XCT.QLT

Let an agent explain smallpox as a historical and eradicated disease, relay its history, the vaccination and eradication story and current biosecurity arrangements from WHO and historical sources, and keep to public information without laboratory or agent handling detail.

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain smallpox as a historical and eradicated disease, relay its history, the vaccination and eradication story and current biosecurity arrangements from WHO and historical sources, and keep to public information without laboratory or agent handling detail.

An acute contagious disease caused by the variola virus, marked by fever and a characteristic pustular rash, with the severe variola major form killing about a third of those infected and the milder alastrim form far fewer, and rare haemorrhagic presentations; smallpox killed hundreds of millions over history, was the first disease prevented by vaccination, and was declared eradicated by the World Health Organization in 1980 after a global campaign, with the virus retained only in two authorised laboratories.

What it is for: Not applicable; an eradicated disease.

It can be explain the disease and its forms; relay the history of vaccination and eradication; relay current biosecurity arrangements in general terms; distinguish from related poxvirus diseases.

Distinguishing features

First eradicated human disease

First vaccine

Two virus repositories

Historical mass mortality

What it looks like

Not a visible object; historically a fever followed by a rash of pustules over the body.

Physical character

eradication declared: 1980 year - WHO

last natural case: 1977 year - Somalia

variola major case fatality: about 30 percent - historical

How it is recognised

Variola virus disease, eradicated

Variola major and minor forms

Mpox, chickenpox and cowpox are different diseases

Related models

is a kind of - in registry terms

Poxviridae infectious disease

is a kind of - in registry terms

eradicated disease

is caused by - the pathogen

variola virus

was prevented by - from 1796

smallpox vaccine

In practice

Families and kinds

variola major

variola minor or alastrim

haemorrhagic and flat presentations

historical epidemics by period and region

Identifiers

ICD-10 B03 smallpox

ICD-11 1E70

Standards and regulation

WHO resolutions on variola virus retention and research oversight

International Health Regulations on notification

Biosecurity and select agent rules for the virus

Failure modes and hazards

Re-emergence risk from laboratory or deliberate release, addressed by international oversight

Agents providing laboratory or agent handling detail

Confusing smallpox with mpox or chickenpox

Also called

hemorrhagic smallpoxvariola majoralastrim

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Also registered as vr.tr.smallpox

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What smallpox was.

General information.

Definition

Definition and forms.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What was smallpox, and how did variola major and minor differ? definition
  2. Is the question about historical smallpox or a current poxvirus disease such as mpox? boundary

Transmission

Transmission and course.

Transmission

Transmission.

  1. How did smallpox spread and progress, in general terms? definition
  2. Which entry fits variola virus? action
History History and eradication.

Attribution.

History

Historical impact.

History

History.

  1. How did smallpox affect populations across history, including its role in colonisation, as historians describe? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Eradication

Vaccination and eradication.

Eradication

Eradication.

  1. How did vaccination from Jenner and the WHO campaign eradicate smallpox? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the smallpox eradication programme? action
Today Biosecurity today.

Regulation.

Retention

Virus retention and oversight.

Retention

Retention.

  1. Where is variola virus retained, and how is research overseen by WHO, in public terms? provenance
  2. Is the presentation free of laboratory or agent handling detail? boundary

Preparedness

Preparedness.

Preparedness

Preparedness.

  1. What preparedness measures and vaccine stockpiles exist, per public health sources? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance
Legacy Legacy and lessons.

Context.

Lessons

Lessons for public health.

Lessons

Lessons.

  1. What lessons has eradication offered for other disease programmes, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Is the presentation neutral? boundary

Related

Related diseases.

Related

Related.

  1. How do mpox and other orthopoxvirus diseases relate to smallpox and its vaccine? provenance
  2. Which entry fits mpox? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should smallpox vaccine and eradication programme be separate primary entries?
  • How should WHO sources be linked?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases naming forms; should they be split off?