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What does smallpox mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by Variola virus of the family Poxviridae. It was completely eradicated in the 1970s. Those who survived were left with pockmarks.
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Vaccinia immune globulin is a first-line therapy for certain adverse reactions to smallpox vaccine.
Today, the Government revealed its plans to vaccinate key workers against smallpox.
The smallpox dilemma has no simple answers, and making the correct decision may, literally, be a matter of life and death.
The pleasure we derive from being with others, along with our wanderlust and desire to explore, sets the stage nicely for smallpox.
It is estimated that a half of the US population is now susceptible to smallpox.
That was when whooping cough, measles, mumps, rubella, polio, diphtheria and smallpox were routine.

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