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the case fatality rate was about sixty-five percent.
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So, the appearance of the lesions was very important in your prognosis.
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The rarest form was hemorrhagic smallpox,
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which had a hundred percent mortality,
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so-called because the natural clotting mechanisms of the blood
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were impaired, and the victim died of massive internal hemorrhaging.
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Overall, the case fatality rate for smallpox was estimated to be
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about thirty to forty percent.
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The virus then attacked not only the skin and the throat,
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but also the lungs, the heart, the liver and other
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internal organs, and could result in
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hemorrhaging and death.