Noun
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smallpox (usually uncountable, plural smallpoxes)
- wata cuta ta ƙuraje da ta fi kama yara, takan sa cin-zanzana a fuska da tabbuna a jiki <> (pathology) An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by Variola virus of the family Poxviridae. It was completely eradicated in the 1970s. Those who survived were left with pockmarks.
- The Europeans brought new diseases such as smallpox, measles, dysentery, influenza, syphilis and leprosy.