PPT Slide
In: A Colour Atlas of Infectious Diseases. R.T.D. Emond, Ed.
Wolfe Medical Books, London (1974)
Malignant smallpox – early stage.
Some patients with hypertoxic smallpox die during the prodromal stage before the true rash appears. This
patient, a woman of 35 years, is seen on the second day of the focal eruption. The rash is at the papular stage.