The Speckled Monster
Smallpox left the skin pockmarked and speckled. Like Plague, this disease has an ancient origin. Ramses V dies of smallpox, and the heliographs mentioned his pockmarked body being mummified. Smallpox has also been mentioned in Sanskrit scriptures. During the 18th century, it was responsible for 4 lakh people annually. The variola virus caused it. Smallpox leads to scabs everywhere on the body, filled with opaque pus. It dried and left Pitts on the skin. In 1796, Edward Jenner saw that people who developed cowpox didn't get infected by smallpox. He made the first vaccine in history. Smallpox is completely eradicated now. The last case of smallpox was in Somalia in 1977.
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Smallpox left the skin pockmarked and speckled. Like Plague, this disease has an ancient origin. Ramses V dies of smallpox, and the heliographs mentioned his pockmarked body being mummified. Smallpox has also been mentioned in Sanskrit scriptures. During the 18th century, it was responsible for 4 lakh people annually. The variola virus caused it. Smallpox leads to scabs everywhere on the body, filled with opaque pus. It dried and left Pitts on the skin. In 1796, Edward Jenner saw that people who developed cowpox didn't get infected by smallpox. He made the first vaccine in history. Smallpox is completely eradicated now. The last case of smallpox was in Somalia in 1977.