poxes
Pustular skin diseases
Poxes is the plural of pox, a disease marked by skin eruptions or pustules—smallpox, chickenpox, monkeypox.
The singular also appears in the old curse a pox on both your houses, wishing disease upon someone.
Informally, the pox often means syphilis.
Spirochete-caused venereal infection
- lesionsAreas of damaged tissue
- pustulesPus-filled skin lesions
- rashHeedless or skin irritation
- scabsDried wound coverings
scarring · fever · itching · contagious · virus · infection · contagion · outbreak
- vaccinationAdministered immunity booster
- epidemicWidespread disease occurrence
- pandemicGlobal disease outbreak
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
conquest · Aztecs · indigenous · decimation · biological warfare · quarantine · eradication · World Health Organization
Deadly epidemic disease
- afflictionCause of ongoing distress
- scourgeCause of mass suffering
- baneCause of destruction
- hexMalevolent incantation
malediction · damnation · torment · blight · pestilence
When fields yield nothing
- infestationPest takeover situation
- fungusSpore-bearing organism
- rustIron oxide coating
- smutLewd content or soot
scab · wilt · rot · canker · necrosis · plant disease · agriculture
syphilis
Spirochete-caused venereal infection
scabs · scarring · fever · itching · contagious · virus · infection · contagion · outbreak · epidemic
Jenner
- vaccinationAdministered immunity booster
- epidemicWidespread disease occurrence
- pandemicGlobal disease outbreak
colonialism · conquest · Aztecs · indigenous · decimation · biological warfare · quarantine · eradication · World Health Organization · inoculation
plague
Deadly epidemic disease
- afflictionCause of ongoing distress
- scourgeCause of mass suffering
- baneCause of destruction
hex · malediction · damnation · torment · blight · pestilence
crop failure
When fields yield nothing
- infestationPest takeover situation
- fungusSpore-bearing organism
- rustIron oxide coating
smut · scab · wilt · rot · canker · necrosis · plant disease · agriculture
poxesbacterial infections
Illnesses caused by germs
fungal infections · parasitic infections · tuberculosis · pneumonia · cholera
poxesblessings
Favors from the divine
benedictions · good wishes · graces · good fortune · favor
- chicken poxViral illness causing blisters
- chicken pox partyGathering to spread varicella
- a pox onArchaic malediction wishing disease
- pox partiesGatherings to spread illness
- pox partyPlanned disease exposure event
- small poxDeadly pustular viral infection