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Smallpox vs Syphillis - What's the difference?

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smallpox

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (pathology) An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by of the family Poxviridae . It was completely eradicated in the 1970s. Those who survived were left with pockmarks.
  • * The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox , measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy.
  • Synonyms

    * variola

    Derived terms

    * smallpox blanket