smallpox

IPA: smˈɔɫpɑks

(pathology) An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by Variola virus of the family Poxviridae. It was completely eradicated in the 1970s, but still exists in laboratories. Those who survived were left with pockmarks.

Examples of "smallpox" in Sentences

He died of smallpox.
He died of smallpox at the age of 15.
He dies of smallpox in the Palace of Versailles.
For the disease with the same name, see smallpox.
Amy used a system of inoculation to protect against smallpox.
A smallpox epidemic in 1710 killed half of the mission's neophytes.
The smallpox virus remains as the most notable member of the family.
The smallpox vaccine was the first successful vaccine to be developed.
The vaccine is based on the vaccinia virus, a cousin of the smallpox virus.
It resembles mild smallpox, and was the basis of the first smallpox vaccines.
London society then censured Lady Mary as an unnatural mother for following the Turkish trend in smallpox inoculation: but her determination escorted a breakthrough into Western medicine.
During the smallpox epidemic that swept through many parts of New Spain in 1763, she cautions that her grandchildren not be allowed to eat sweets while the threat of smallpox is present; another letter mentions that Maria Antonia's dizzy spells were probably caused by "the sweets she eats."