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Latest revision as of 10:57, 2 October 2012 Wikipedia [edit] English smallpox (usually uncountable; plural smallpoxes) - (pathology) An acute, highly infectious often fatal disease caused by a 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.
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