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. Linsey Marr:

   We're not going to eradicate this coronavirus like we've done with smallpox ; it is something that I think is going to settle into a more seasonal pattern, like the flu and colds... but right now, because it's novel and so many people are not immune to it, it's really ripping through the population. But I think five years from now, we will have much greater immunity either through vaccination or natural infection.

2. 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.

3. Anthony Fauci:

   So, if we’re going to look ahead at what happens when this peaks and it ultimately goes down — as I’ve said on previous pressers here from the White House: that we’re not going to eradicate this; we’ve only done that with smallpox.

4. Bert Jacobs:

   We use surrogate live attenuated vaccines, where we put parts of SARS-CoV-2 into vaccinia virus [which guards against smallpox], and this can be done initially within a month.

5. Mayra Rosado:

   I cannot emphasize enough the importance of immunizing your children, because of vaccines, we’ve been able to eliminate life-threatening diseases like smallpox in the U.S.