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. 2005 Jan;18(1):13-20.
doi: 10.1080/08998280.2005.11928026.

Smallpox and biological warfare: a disease revisited

Stefan Riedel  1
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Smallpox and biological warfare: a disease revisited

Stefan Riedel. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2005 Jan.
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Figure 1
Hand and face of a patient with severe smallpox in Accra, Ghana, 1967. Photo courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Public Health Image Library.
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Figure 2
Histologic changes in human skin in a case of smallpox infection. Photo courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Public Health Image Library.
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Figure 3
The rash of smallpox. Photos courtesy of the World Health Organization.
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Figure 4
Typical temperature chart of a patient with smallpox, showing the approximate time of appearance and evolution of the rash in conjunction with the time of highest infectivity relative to the number of days after infection (4, 14).
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Figure 5
Transmission electron micrograph of a tissue section containing variola virus. Photo from Fred Murphy and Sylvia Whitfield, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, courtesy of the Public Health Image Library.
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Figure 6
Multipuncture vaccination by birfurcated needle. Image courtesy of the World Health Organization.
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