English-French translations for smallpox

• petite vérole
• variole
  L'Irak détient-il le virus de la variole ? Does Iraq possess the smallpox virus?
  Il est vrai que nous avons eu un exercice de simulation la semaine dernière concernant la variole. It is true that we had a simulation exercise last week for smallpox.
  De nombreux pays prennent des mesures afin de mieux pouvoir se défendre contre l' anthrax ou la variole. Many countries take measures in order to protect themselves against anthrax or smallpox better.

Definition of smallpox

• An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by of the family ''Poxviridae''. It was completely eradicated in the 1970s. Those who survived were left with pockmarks

Examples

• The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox, measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy

Related words

• small
• smallcaps
• smaller
• smallest
• small-minded
• dismally
• smallholding
• small-reed
• smallness