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
• That vaccine is the smallpox vaccine, at the same dose adults get.
  — The Enquirer, 4 June 2023
• 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
• Scientists don’t know where the virus in the smallpox vaccine came from.
  — The Atlantic Science Desk, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 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
• The world was riddled with smallpox, which killed one-third of all infected.
  — Hannah Seo, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2022
• The shot was approved for use against smallpox and monkeypox in 2019.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2022
• The disease can be treated with the antiviral drugs used to prevent against smallpox.
  — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 13 July 2022
• 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
• Monkeypox is one, as is smallpox and cowpox, the latter of which is rare in humans.
  — Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Two decades on, Ebola virus now has been created in the lab, and so has a close relative of smallpox, horsepox.
  — Janika Schmitt, STAT, 10 July 2023
• Tpoxx is approved in the European Union to treat monkeypox as well as smallpox.
  — Neeraj G. Patel and Nadia Kounang, CNN, 2 Aug. 2022
• The next hundred years were not kind to the people of Rapa Nui: It’s thought that soon after, there was a civil war, then a slave raid, and then an outbreak of smallpox.
  — Gwen McClure, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2023
• As that plot takes over, the film is squeezed dry of any remaining substance, and by the time the king is on his deathbed, riddled with smallpox, Jeanne du Barry feels like a cartoon.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2023
• Meanwhile, there was an outbreak of smallpox in the town and, at the queen’s command, the royal entourage was vaccinated.
  — Jonathan Miles, Town & Country, 5 Sep. 2023
• Studies have shown that monkeypox is linked to the Orthopoxvirus genus, which is also found in smallpox and cowpox.
  — Ahjané Forbes, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2022
• The smallpox vaccine – which does not contain live smallpox virus – has been shown to be highly effective in adults against mpox.
  — The Enquirer, 4 June 2023
• Much of the later progress has been against tropical diseases like malaria as well as smallpox and polio.
  — Marshall Ingwerson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
• Russia also holds stocks of the smallpox virus for research purposes.
  — Paul Chaplin, STAT, 8 July 2022
• People who got the smallpox vaccine are eligible for the Jynneos shot.
  — Grace Tooheystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
• But African countries don’t have stockpiles of smallpox vaccines—nor access to treatment.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 3 Aug. 2022
• The Spanish introduced smallpox to the Aztecs, and the outbreak that followed eventually wiped out half of the city’s residents.
  — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2022
• People who battle viruses like smallpox, measles, or polio have immunity for years, or even for the rest of their lives.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Well, 18 Apr. 2023
• In the past 50 years, scientists have mapped the entire human genome and eradicated smallpox.
  — Matthew Desmond, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• The vaccine was made for smallpox, not specifically for monkeypox, but is expected to work against the virus.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw | [e-mail], al, 9 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 6 May 2024