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smallpox

[ UK /smˈɔːlpɒks/ ]
[ US /ˈsmɔɫˌpɑks/ ]
NOUN
  1. a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars

How To Use smallpox In A Sentence

  • What if a hijacked plane hit a nuclear power plant, what if bioterrorists infected burger bars, what if we were flooded with smallpox?
  • The minister identified plague, ebola, smallpox, anthrax, tularaemia and botulism as the main biological threats.
  • Hahnemann, the founder of homoeopathy, was a supporter of smallpox vaccination.
  • Smallpox, caused by a virus called variola, was declared eliminated in 1980 after a global vaccination campaign. Cancer Pill may fight Small Pox | Impact Lab
  • He walked out as matter-of-coursely as if he had dropped in to ask the meaning of "circumflex," or who invented smallpox, or the name of Adam's house-cat, or how long it would take her to do a graduation essay for his daughter -- or any such little things that librarians are prepared for most days. The Rose-Garden Husband
  • It is possible that one or both of these pandemics were due to smallpox, or even measles.
  • In 1742 he suffered a fatal attack of smallpox.
  • English settlers for control of coastal lands suffered terribly, sometimes from war, but more often from the spread of contagious diseases such as smallpox. America Past and Present
  • In the final two chapters, he makes his final case against the extermination of the remaining smallpox stockpiles.
  • The first three years of George II's reign, which began in 1727, were afflicted by successive waves of smallpox and influenza-like infections, imprecisely and variously described by contemporaries as agues and fevers.
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