How to Use smallpox in a Sentence

smallpox

noun

• It was used around the world against smallpox in the 1970s.
  — Dr. Jade Cobern, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2022
• Tpoxx was approved in the U.S. to treat smallpox in 2018.
  — Joseph Walker, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022
• The virus originated in Africa and is the cousin of the smallpox virus.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 5 Sep. 2022
• In the 1800s, smallpox vaccine was shipped across the channel to France.
  — Albert Bourla, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
• That vaccine is the smallpox vaccine, at the same dose adults get.
  — The Enquirer, 4 June 2023
• Faces in the crowd could be spotted with smallpox scars.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 7 Jan. 2024
• Mpox is a cousin of smallpox, with both viruses causing rashes on the skin and in the mouth.
  — Noor Adatia, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
• At the time, the threat of smallpox wasn’t something to be taken lightly.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 15 Feb. 2022
• Scientists don’t know where the virus in the smallpox vaccine came from.
  — The Atlantic Science Desk, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2022
• Moctezuma’s brother, who took the throne next, died of smallpox, a disease brought by the Spaniards.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2022
• The virus is in the same family of viruses as that which causes smallpox.
  — Brook Endale, The Enquirer, 26 July 2022
• The mpox virus, is a milder version of its relation, smallpox.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
• Of these, the most common are measles, mumps, rubella, polio, flu, smallpox and tetanus.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2021
• The world was riddled with smallpox, which killed one-third of all infected.
  — Hannah Seo, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2022
• Cy Tolliver tries to deny it, but the truth is as plain as smallpox scars.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2021
• The shot was approved for use against smallpox and monkeypox in 2019.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2022
• The process had a 2% death rate, as compared to the minimal risk modern smallpox vaccine.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2021
• The disease can be treated with the antiviral drugs used to prevent against smallpox.
  — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 13 July 2022
• He was blinded at four by smallpox and, as a non-believer in a believing time and place, lived alone in a cave.
  — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
• The last natural outbreak of smallpox in the United States occurred in 1949.
  — Fox News, 17 Nov. 2021
• The study is the first to demonstrate that poxviruses, which include both monkeypox and smallpox, can spread in this manner.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2022
• According to the Mayo Clinic, there is no treatment or cure for smallpox.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2021
• Peale didn’t omit Washington’s smallpox scars from his left cheek.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 27 Jan. 2024
• Monkeypox is one, as is smallpox and cowpox, the latter of which is rare in humans.
  — Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2022
• The messages about how kingdom rulers mandated the smallpox vaccine in the 1850s doesn’t resonate with him.
  — Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug. 2021
• The virus is a less severe cousin of smallpox, which was declared eradicated in 1980.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 11 May 2023
• In the last days of the smallpox campaign, that meant the family next door to an infected person, not someone on the other side of the village.
  — Wired, 26 July 2022
• Its sting produces first a burning sensation—hence the name—and then a smallpox-like pustule.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
• In the 1800s, as a much safer smallpox vaccine was developed, many cities and states started requiring smallpox vaccination.
  — Jon Lapook, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2024
• Waning immunity clearly played a role: More than 90% of the affected people had never received a smallpox vaccine.
  — Byjon Cohen, science.org, 16 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024