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PREPARING FOR BIOTERROR
Study Questions

 

1. What is smallpox? How does a person contract smallpox and how does it spread? Does it still occur in the world today?

 

 

 

 

2. How is smallpox prevented?

 

 

 

 

3. Describe the smallpox vaccine. What are the possible harmful effects of vaccination? Who should not be vaccinated?