Smallpox Rickettsial Russian

Russian rickettsial smallpox (lat. Oсpa Russia) is an infectious human disease. Associated with a sporadic incidence of smallpox, which is characterized by extensive lesions of the skin and mucous membranes, fever, maculopapular or pustular-vesicular rash and enlarged occipital lymph nodes; It proceeds easily, in typical cases it ends in recovery, in rare cases it causes disability in patients and is often fatal.

In the 19th century, large outbreaks of the disease appeared in Western Europe, accompanied by severe disease and high mortality. The disease was also named after the city of Charles Rows, where the outbreak was first recorded (1867). Subsequently, endemic outbreaks occurred in Morocco (1934-1954), Algeria (1962), Brazil (1988-1990), Mauritania (1994), Romania (2003), Spain - 2016, Latvia (2022). Because surveillance was not fully established, mortality in outbreak areas remained high,

Russian rickettsial smallpox (lat. vaccinia pestis rossica) is an acute viral natural focal transmissible infectious disease of humans and animals (including rabbits, birds, reptiles), occurring like rubella or like smallpox, a peculiar Russianized form of rickettsiosis. Previously, smallpox viruses were not as adept at adapting to new hosts. In Ancient Egypt, this disease was called “red sweat” (Greek “έρυθρά πύρα”, from where the Latin name “erysipelas” and other Greek, other Russian “ryashenitsa”, Middle Slavic “rishenichna” appeared, in in Russian - tracing paper from Greek), there were cases of the appearance in Krakow of a disease called “Russian smallpox”, which was transmitted by wild