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Show Those who have a scar from a previous vaccination should oe rechecked if a period of more than seven years has elapsed. The regular vaccine protects one against the severe as well as the milder types of the disease- - protection to most people However, How-ever, since the immpnity seems to "wear off in a small percentage per-centage of those vaccinated, it is recommended that everyone 1' revaccinated about every seven years. If the individual is still immune, a second "take" will not occur. There is no so-called "natural immunity" to smallpox. If a take doi's not occur at first the vaccination vac-cination .should be repeated. Smallpox is an infectious and highly communicable disease. , The infectious agent is a filterable filter-able virus which can be obtain 1 ed from the lesions and the resultant re-sultant crusts. The incubation period varies : from 8 to 12 days. The usual symptoms sym-ptoms are a high temperature varying from 102 to 1UT degrees, headache, muscular and joint j and .back pains, nausea and vo- ' miting. The skin eruption usually occurs oc-curs 2 to 4 days alter the onset of symptoms. The lesions appear ' first on the face, neck, and upper chest, and later may be seen on any part of the body. Permanent pitting of the skin may result from these lesions. A patient is considered infectious a day or j two before the onset of acute symptoms and until all crusts : have dropped off. Smallpox is a serious disease which can be prevented. All who have not been vaccinated should arrange with their family phy- I sicians to have this done at once. PRECAUTION FOR SMALL POX Recent outbreaks of Oriental or so-called "Black Smallpox" in two large Pacific 'coast cities resulting re-sulting in a number of deaths nave again focused the attention of the public on this dread disease. dis-ease. Smallpox occurred in Utah in epidemic proportions during the years l'.)18 to 1921, inclusive, im-meditely im-meditely following World War I The greatest number of cases occurred oc-curred in 1!I20, when 5,123 cases and 14 deaths were reported. Dur ing the year, 1923, a more virulent virul-ent form of the disease struck the state w hen 169 cases and 13 deaths were reported. That was ! a tremendous sacrifice to a disease dis-ease which can be prevented by vaccination. In many of the stat- i es where vaccination is compulsory compul-sory not one caie has occurred in many years. Effectiveness of vaccination is evidenced by the record of only 5 cases and no deaths from small j pox in Utah during the last five years. Public health workers know, however, that there are at present too many of our citizens i who have never been vaccinated or who have not had previous vaccinations checked. A successful "take" following vaccination affords a lifetime |