Smallpox

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Smallpox is an acute, highly infectious, often fatal disease caused by a poxvirus and characterized by high fever and aches with subsequent widespread eruption of pimples that blister, produce pus, and form pockmarks. It is also called variola. [1]

References

  1. http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/about/terms/glossary.htm#s