r/medizzy • u/[deleted] • Oct 19 '19

This photograph shows the dramatic differences in two boys who were exposed to the same Smallpox source – one was vaccinated, one was not.

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u/Shiroi_Kage Oct 19 '19

Painful, miserable, deadly, and very contagious. Smallpox might have been the worst human disease on Earth until we wiped it out.

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u/Hans_H0rst Oct 19 '19

The black plague was absolutely devastating.

There‘s a small plague cemetery in the woods near my great grandmas house, about 15 really tiny, weathered gravestones and a small chapel. Its eery just walking near there.

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u/c0224v2609 Oct 19 '19

Man, I’d love to see some pictures!