An individual patient is always advised to consult their own physician. By establishing your immune system with antibodies to smallpox, thus preventing subsequent infection. It is as if you have had smallpox although you have not had the disease. Smallpox has been eradicated worldwide. The last reported case was in Africa about 5-6 years ago.
Small pox is a virus that is transmitted in person to person contact.
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