Talk:Epidemic/@comment-26394749-20160524021927/@comment-31077845-20170227023512

Agreed SammyG, that's exactly what I had assumed when she said she got it from a cow. It couldn't be cowpox; that's what they used as the very first vaccine AGAINST smallpox, as it had a much lower mortality rate.

However it would be tough to confuse smallpox for simple pimples; they'd be all over one's body and...well, they'd resemble smallpox. There's not that many other comparisons, as smallpox and chickenpox and cowpox all create uniquely itchy painful sores, but they create them all over a person's body and are awfully identifiable. People wouldn't assume she had bad complexion, they'd probably say "Yo, do you have chickenpox?" and then she'd go to her doctor and they'd test her and realize some absurdly rare mutation had occurred and there as the possibility she'd start a whole new outbreak of smallpox and she'd be quarantined. I'd say that would be terrible for a young girl, but apparently she was a sociopath because I guess she decided if she was old and sickly and going to die she may as well take as many people as she could down with her. Why? Who knows!