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'''Smallpox''' is an acute, highly infectious, and sometimes fatal [[disease]] caused by a poxvirus and characterized by high fever and aches with subsequent widespread eruption of pimples that blister, produce pus, and form pockmarks. It is also called variola.<ref>http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/about/terms/glossary.htm#s</ref>
'''Smallpox''' is an acute, highly infectious, and sometimes fatal [[disease]] caused by a poxvirus and characterized by high fever and aches with subsequent widespread eruption of pimples that blister, produce pus, and form pockmarks. It is also called variola.<ref>https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/about/terms/glossary.htm#s</ref>
Susceptibility to smallpox is based to a large degree on ethnic heritage. [[Europe]]ans were plagued by it for many years and built up a resistance, whereas native [[American]] populations were decimated when European explorers reached the Americas, almost causing extinction in many areas.
Susceptibility to smallpox is based to a large degree on ethnic heritage. [[Europe]]ans were plagued by it for many years and built up a resistance, whereas native [[American]] populations were decimated when European explorers reached the Americas, almost causing extinction in many areas.