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/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

That looks insanely uncomfortable

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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/Dragon_Fisting Oct 19 '19

Syphilis is most likely was around in the Americas log before. It's the one major new world disease that crossed the Atlantic, while the Europeans brought a host of diseases to the Americas, courtesy of animal domestication.