English-Spanish translations for smallpox

• viruela
  ¿Posee el Iraq el virus de la viruela? Does Iraq possess the smallpox virus?
  Es cierto que la semana pasada realizamos un ejercicio de simulación relacionado con la viruela. It is true that we had a simulation exercise last week for smallpox.
  Hoy celebramos el XXX aniversario de la erradicación de la viruela. Today, we are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the eradication of smallpox.

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
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