pox
Also called soil rot .Plant Pathology. a disease of sweet potatoes, characterized by numerous pitlike lesions on the roots, caused by a fungus, Streptomyces ipomoea.
(used as an interjection to express distaste, rejection, aversion, etc.): A pox on you and your bright ideas!
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At the genetic level, the two viruses are “85% identical,” says Jason Mercer, a pox virologist at the University of Birmingham.
Everything you need to know about the monkeypox vaccines | Jessica Hamzelou | August 3, 2022 | MIT Technology ReviewOne member of the enzyme family is found in skin cells, where people with monkeypox can develop infectious pox lesions.
Monkeypox is not a global health emergency for now, WHO says | Erin Garcia de Jesús | June 26, 2022 | Science NewsIt was a deadly disease, and even survivors suffered miserably from fever, vomiting, headaches and pus-filled pox.
Mandatory immunization for the military: As American as George Washington | Gillian Brockell | August 26, 2021 | Washington PostSince then, the 3,000 or so units have remained in countries throughout Africa, says Lieberman, and are used to store routine vaccines for diseases such as measles, polio, chicken pox, and hepatitis.
Keeping covid vaccines cold isn’t easy. These ideas could help. | Lindsay Muscato | March 29, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewThe virus that gives children chicken pox will hide out in a person’s body for 40 years or more, and then emerge as a painful, sometimes debilitating, case of shingles.
Vaccines Are the Safest Medical Procedure We Have. Make Your Wager Wisely - Facts So Romantic | Stuart Firestein | December 29, 2020 | Nautilus
Indeed the earliest vaccinations against small pox were done 1,000 years ago in China.
Powdered Measles Vaccine Could Be Huge for Developing World | Kent Sepkowitz | December 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn contrast, the actual chicken pox virus long ago exited my bloodstream and is not detectable.
For example, though I had chicken pox decades ago, I still have antibody to chicken pox.
I mean, even Ron Fournier of National Journal, usually devoted to the pox-on-both-houses, why-can't-Obama-lead?
Libertarians, of course, have grimly wished a pox on both their houses of Congress.
Then there was the cholera that came in the night to the village by the bridge-works; and after the cholera smote the small-pox.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard KiplingThe cows soon became affected with the Cow pox, and soon after several sores appeared on his hands.
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae | Edward JennerThis woman had the Cow pox when she lived in the service of a Farmer in this parish thirty-one years before.
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae | Edward JennerShe has since been repeatedly employed as a nurse to Small-pox patients, without experiencing any ill consequences.
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae | Edward JennerHe became ill on the 6th day with symptoms similar to those excited by Cow-pox matter.
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae | Edward Jenner
British Dictionary definitions for pox
/ (pɒks) /
any disease characterized by the formation of pustules on the skin that often leave pockmarks when healed
the pox an informal name for syphilis
a pox on someone (interjection) archaic an expression of intense disgust or aversion for someone
Origin of pox
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