a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars
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smallpox::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | variola, variola major |
| Type of | pox |
| Has types | cuban itch, kaffir pox, milk pox, white pox, alastrim, pseudosmallpox, pseudovariola, variola minor, west indian smallpox |
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As a result, typhoid, smallpox, diphtheria, and other epidemics remained common.
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The others are about AIDS, first detected in 1981, the year after smallpox died.
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To date, smallpox is the only human viral disease to have been fully eradicated.
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Larry Brilliant talks about how smallpox was finally eradicated from the planet.
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In April 1712, both James Francis Edward and his sister fell sick with smallpox.
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Although not officially stated in history, it is said he later died of smallpox.
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What potential ripple effects of a smallpox attack are described in the program?
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Who, according to the report, controls the distribution of the smallpox vaccine?
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It turns out that camelpox and smallpox are similar even in these outer regions.
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- A highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars
- Smallpox is an infectious disease unique to humans, caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor. The disease is also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera, which is a derivative of the Latin varius, meaning spotted, or varus, meaning "pimple". ...
- Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon is a fictional docudrama produced by Wall to Wall, showing how a single act of bioterrorism leads to terrifying consequences globally.
- An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by a virus of the family Poxviridae. It was completely eradicated in the 1970s. Those who survived were left with pockmarks
- A highly contagious disease caused by a type of poxvirus; symptoms usually include a fever and a blistery-like rash.
- To see people with smallpox in your dream, denotes unexpected and shocking sickness, and probably contagion. You will meet failure in accomplishing your designs.
- Deadly virus that was declared eradicated in 1979 by the World Health Organization. Vaccinations stopped, and even laboratory samples have been destroyed, though two research centers retain DNA fragments under tight security. Feared as a possible agent of bioterrorism.
- A disease believed to have originated over 3,000 years ago in India or Egypt. It was one of the most devastating diseases to ever occur and is the only known disease that has been completely eradicated.
- Acute contagious disease caused by a virus, with fever and pustules, and with a high death rate; now eradicated world-wide
