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What is the meaning of smallpox?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

An acute contagious febrile disease of humans that is caused by a poxvirus (species Variola virus of the genus Orthopoxvirus), is characterized by a skin eruption with pustules, sloughing, and scar formation, and is believed to have been eradicated globally by widespread vaccination ---called also variola.

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