pox
POX
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Smallpox was (the WHO declared it eradicated in 1977) a very ancient scourge related to, and possibly deriving from, one of the various animal poxes .
any of several viral diseases producing a rash of pimples that become pus-filled and leave pockmarks on healing.
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Boswell's father wrote frankly to a female friend that his son had got the 'pox' again; in reply, she noted that the disease had grown quite common.
On a recent visit to Spain, where turbines have spread like a vicious 'pox' , I learnt that this month 47 vultures headed for the Strait of Gibraltar had been felled by turbine blades.
And I do mean 'pox' with full medieval connotations.
We next pointed out that the lack of specimens from 1950s provided a fortuitous link with the first published report of 'pox' in California, in which Power and Human documented a severe outbreak at Santa Barbara in 1972.
Small-pox may be mistaken for the very little pox or the very big 'pox' (chicken-pox or syphilis).
Other diseases that affect the overall health of finches, including 'pox' and Mycoplasma galliceptum, cause males to grow a less red plumage.
Its more dangerous and certainly more filthy than any 'pox' I have ever heard of.
The other diseases are things like sheep and goat 'pox' , blue tongue, African swine fever, and one could go on a bit further than that, but I think that's probably enough.
Today we've got 'pox' on the brain; it's syphilis, and the arguments that rage around not only the disease but also the people who may have had it.
At those words a doctor arrived, clad in the long leather coat and bird-mask of the Plague Years, reeking of 'pox' and fire though London had known neither in more than a lifetime.
Although they do not establish causation, our straightforward data and analyses show strong temporal and spatial links between 'pox' and plumage coloration and add potential new insights to work on this interesting species.
Avian 'pox' was undoubtedly introduced into Hawaii during the 1800s with the importation of domestic avian stock.
At most media companies, corrections are a 'pox' , a bane on the reporter's existence.
As an infant, he came down with some kind of 'pox' that savaged even his eyeballs.
Venereal disease, especially syphilis or the 'pox' , also featured prominently in abusive language.
The diagnosis was that of ‘bird 'pox' ,’ an introduced disease that the Bureau had demonstrated during the previous summer in domestic chickens from Honolulu.
What we know from animal experiments is that the fowl 'pox' by itself, or the DNA by itself, are not very good vaccines.
The invention was presented as a means of avoiding piles, 'pox' and plague.
Within four years after the white 'pox' was found, the population of elkhorn coral in Eastern Dry Rocks Reef had decreased by 82 percent.
That vaccine also protected them from other viruses that are still pretty much limited to other animals, particularly monkey 'pox' .
It is one spore in a larger 'pox' , the plundering of oceans worldwide.
Other diseases which are spread include the causative agents of avian influenza, salmonella, fowl 'pox' , coccidiosis, botulism and new castle disease.
This pox, called the great 'pox' , was in fact syphilis, a widespread health hazard at the time.
These range from Gypsy moths to invasive plants and exotic diseases like West Nile virus and Monkey 'pox' .
In 2003, more than 70 people were infected with monkey 'pox' , a viral infection never before seen in this country, after handling infected prairie dogs sold as pets.
Smallpox was (the WHO declared it eradicated in 1977) a very ancient scourge related to, and possibly deriving from, one of the various animal 'poxes' .
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