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What is the period of communicability?

April 26, 2017period

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What is the period of communicability?

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Persons with smallpox are most infectious during the first week of illness, because that is when the largest amount of virus is present in saliva. Disease is most often transmitted from the time the ill person first develops rash until the time when rash has resolved (all scabs have fallen off).