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Smallpox from the View of Islam and the Chinese Culture
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Smallpox from the View of Islam and the Chinese Culture
For the longest time, smallpox has affected and laid waste to humankind. Today we
rarely worry about smallpox and its affliction, thanks to several scholars and doctors such as
Edward Jenner and the subsequent developments on the disease. The rapid growth in vaccine
development and vaccination in recent decades has made it possible for people not to succumb to
the disease. However, this was not the case at the initial stages of the smallpox epidemic. The
first people to be affected by smallpox had so many myths and misconceptions about the disease.
According to Thèves, Biagini, & Crubézy, (2014), smallpox is a contagious viral ailment that is
coupled with fever and small swellings that most of the time, leave permanent scars.
For centuries, smallpox has mainly afflicted humans, and it is an infectious disease.
Affected people and smallpox survivors acquire lifelong immunity; furthermore, smallpox is
neither chronic nor does it reoccur to individuals previously infected. The condition was more
persistent before due to unchecked admittance of affected persons to a society that was
unaffected through migration or birth. People who first witnessed the atrocities of the smallpox
epidemic did not know what it was, and therefore, before physicians and scholars intervened and
effectively eradicated smallpox by 1979, there were many superstitions regarding the disease
(Atkinson, Hamborsky, McIntyre, & Wolfe, 2007).
Historical Background of Smallpox
Some written records left by the early civilizations (before AD 1000) show some of the
diseases that affected people during that time. Most of these records were prone to destructions
and time; however, smallpox unmistakably has its traces in the 4
th
century AD in China, 7
th
century in India, and the 10
th
century in south-western Asia. Also, the remains of mummified

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1 Running head: SMALLPOX Smallpox from the View of Islam and the Chinese Culture Student’s Name Institution Affiliation Date 2 SMALLPOX Smallpox from the View of Islam and the Chinese Culture For the longest time, smallpox has affected and laid waste to humankind. Today we rarely worry about smallpox and its affliction, thanks to several scholars and doctors such as Edward Jenner and the subsequent developments on the disease. The rapid growth in vaccine development and vaccination in recent decades has made it possible for people not to succumb to the disease. However, this was not the case at the initial stages of the smallpox epidemic. The first people to be affected by smallpox had so many myths and misconceptions about the disease. According to Thèves, Biagini, & Crubézy, (2014), smallpox is a contagious viral ailment that is coupled with fever and small swellings that most of the time, leave permanent scars. For centuries, smallpox has mainly afflicted humans, and it is an infectious disease. Affected people and smallpox survivors acquire lifelong immunity; furthermore, smallpox is neither chronic nor does it reoccur to individuals previously infected. The condition was more persistent before due to unchecked admittance of affected persons to a society that was unaffected through migration or birth. People who first witnessed the atrocities of the smallpox epidemic did not know what it was, and therefore, before physicians and scholars intervened and effective ...
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