Translations for „smallpox“ in the English » Polish Dictionary

smallpox [ˈsmɔ:lpɒks, Am -pɑ:ks] N no pl MED

smallpox

ospa f

smallpox N

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smallpox MED

czarna ospa

smallpox MED

ospa prawdziwa

Usage examples with smallpox

to be pitted with smallpox

mieć blizny [lub ślady] po ospie

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Major achievements included the development of the polio vaccine in the 1950s and the eradication of smallpox during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Similarities have been noted to smallpox; it could even be an early occurrence of it.

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Only three years later, the young duke died of smallpox.

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Housing for the workers were overcrowded and unclean, making it suitable for the hazards of typhoid, cholera, and smallpox.

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The comparative docility of infectious diseases like smallpox has contributed to a degree of complacency about the magnitude of the risks of refusing vaccination.

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Good health would be common, and poor health of any form would be as rare as smallpox and scurvy are today.

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The patient would develop pustules identical to those caused by naturally occurring smallpox, usually producing a less severe disease than naturally-acquired smallpox.

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There were also the presence of cholera, inuenza, smallpox, beri-beri, dysentery, bubonic plague, scurvy, rheumatism, asthma, syphilis, tetanus, toothache, and ulcers.

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The guest is a euphemism for smallpox, or an unwanted visitor that brings death and destruction.

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But by 1540 only 5,985 people were left in the city, largely because of smallpox.

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