discovering site and potential user

A main focus of my project is to design a device around a particular profession. I am using this idea in order to concentrate on a task of designing a device for protecting a hand in the case of a smallpox outbreak. Not only do I want a device that is antibacterial and a defender against smallpox but i also want my device to be beneficial to the host for which it is used.

here is a diagram of the parts of the hand that I find either most susceptible to disease or least

Smallpox- a possible epidemic

Smallpox is caused by the variola virus that emerged in human populations thousands of years ago. Except for laboratory stockpiles, the variola virus has been eliminated. However, in the aftermath of the events of September and October, 2001, there is heightened concern that the variola virus might be used as an agent of bioterrorism.