smallpox epidemic
Contagious disease surge
A smallpox epidemic is a widespread outbreak of smallpox, a highly contagious and often fatal viral disease characterized by fever and distinctive pustular skin lesions.
Before eradication in 1980, smallpox epidemics devastated populations worldwide, with particularly catastrophic effects on Indigenous peoples of the Americas after European contact: The smallpox epidemic of 1520 killed millions of Aztecs.
- disease outbreakRapid spread of illness
- vaccinationAdministered immunity booster
- outbreakSudden eruption of trouble
- infectious diseasePathogen-caused transmissible ailment
- pustulesPus-filled skin lesions
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Complete global destruction of variola
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Ending something worldwide
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