The Epidemiology of Smallpox
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INTRODUCTION how the body reacted and what symptoms were produced, and how the virus was shed . Chapters 1 and 3 were concerned with Since smallpox was an infectious disease, smallpox as a disease of individual human there is another dimension to its study besides beings, discussing such problems as how the its effect on individual patients-namely, its virus entered the body and spread through it, behaviour in human populations . This di-
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