Smallpox
• Orthopoxvirus family, (variola major)
• Can spread from person to person, aerosolized
• Signs and symptoms
– flu-like beginning with high fever
– maculopapular rash usually starts on face and hands
then forearms and trunk and legs
– become vesicular and pustular (embedded in dermis)
– all lesions occur at same level of development
– leave pitted scar after separation from skin