B03 Guidelines & Instructional Notes: Smallpox

Instruction Source: B03

Smallpox

In 1980 the 33rd World Health Assembly declared that smallpox had been eradicated.
The classification is maintained for surveillance purposes.

Instruction Source: B00-B09

Viral infections characterized by skin and mucous membrane lesions (B00-B09)

Instruction Source: A00-B99

Certain infectious and parasitic diseases

Excludes 2 (Not Included Here)

carrier or suspected carrier of infectious disease (Z22.-)
certain localized infections - see body system-related chapters
infectious and parasitic diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.-)
infectious and parasitic diseases specific to the perinatal period (P35-P39)
influenza and other acute respiratory infections (J00-J22)