ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Viral infections characterised by skin or mucous membrane...
Infections due to poxvirus
1E70 — Smallpox
ICD-11 1E70 — Smallpox
A disease caused by an infection with variola virus. This disease is characterised by a maculopapular rash that progresses to vesicles (commonly on the face, arms, and legs), and fever. Transmission is by direct contact. Confirmation is by identification of the variola virus in a skin sample of the rash. In 1980 the 33rd World Health Assembly declared that smallpox had been eradicated. The classification is maintained for surveillance purposes.
It includes 1 item.
- Variola
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.