Is There a Vaccine for Small Pox?

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The disease itself is usually quite mild. Symptoms typically appear five to 21 days after infection. In africa, mortality is one % for one of these trains and ten% for the other train. But i should mention that this is based on data for africa, in remote places with very poor health care. And mortality here in europe, for example, is going to be much, much lower.

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