Synonyms for smallpox
ˈsmɔlˌpɒkssmall·pox

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1. smallpoxnoun

   Synonyms:
   variola

2. smallpoxnoun

   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.

   Synonyms:
   variola

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1. smallpox, variola, variola majornoun

   a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars

   Synonyms:
   variola, variola major, variola major virus

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1. smallpoxnoun

   Synonyms:
   variola, varioloid (modified smallpox after vaccination)

   Associated words:
   vaccination, vaccine, virus, variolation, vaccinate, pock, pockmark, pockmarked, antivariolus, variolus, pocky, papule, pustule

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1. List of paraphrases for "smallpox":

   pox

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1. Anthony Fauci:

   We certainly need people to be rational about vaccines. They eradicated smallpox, they saved millions and millions of lives, they are very complex to design, and that's why, you know, saying it's being done at Warp Speed is a little scary, because you really need to do the safety checks very, very carefully.

2. Terry Jones:

   Before the rise of sequencing there is a long historical record of disease outbreaks, some of which sound like smallpox, the further back in time you go, the less certain things are.

3. Bill Hanage:

   We've only ever really eradicated smallpox and if it weren't for a couple of further interventions beyond vaccines, even that could still have been with us, most people who know anything about infectious disease don't think total eradication is possible.

4. Ashish Jha:

   We have 1.3 million doses of TPOXX -- the treatment for smallpox, it can also be used for monkeypox -- in our stockpile. And we are working day and night to make access to that treatment easier for providers around the country.

5. Martin Sikora:

   The last 40 to 50 years have been exceptionally quiet for us, because we've had such tremendous progress in medical research, the combination of vaccines and antibiotics, the eradication of smallpox gives us hope for the current situation.