Alex Ostrovsky                                                               11/18/03 SMALLPOX         When you hear the word Smallpox, what comes to mind? You may know it's a disease, but what kind of a disease? Is it a version of Chicken pox? Does it just go away by itself or do you die from it? To begin to answer some of these questions we have to start from the beginning. One interesting thing about Smallpox is that nobody knows where it originated. Smallpox might have …showed first 75 words of 545 total…

…showed last 75 words of 545 total…able to survive transportation without proper conditions. It would become inactive after 2-3 days of its production. Until a new method of storage was invented the vaccine was very hard to get to far away places.         Smallpox was one of the world's most dangerous viruses, and finally on May 8, 1980, Geneva, Switzerland the thirty-third World Health Assembly declared that the world was free of the Smallpox virus, which had terrorized the world for more than 3000 years.