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Around 400 AD, an Indian medical book recorded a disease marked by pustules and boils, saying \u201cthe pustules are red, yellow, and white and they are accompanied by burning pain \u2026 the skin seems studded with grains of rice.\u201d The Indian epidemic was thought to be punishment from a god, and the survivors created a goddess, Sitala, as the anthropomorphic personification of the disease.[15][16][17] Smallpox was thus regarded as possession by Sitala.

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