white pox

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white pox - a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus

alastrim, Cuban itch, Kaffir pox, milk pox, pseudosmallpox, pseudovariola, variola minor, West Indian smallpox

smallpox, variola, variola major - a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars

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But reefs around the world are being compromised by changing ocean waters and further threatened by opportunistic pathogens such as Serratia marcescens, which causes white pox in Caribbean corals.

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What Professor Bedson was committed to doing was finding out more about the smallpox virus and its variants, including white pox and monkey pox.

Toxic SHOCK; Twenty five years ago a disease that many thought was dead and gone reared its head in Birmingham: smallpox. Campbell Docherty and Caroline Foulkes look back at the 1978 outbreak and ask if it could ever happen again

During the survey, yellow band coral disease was discovered, white pox coral disease was discovered, and white plague type II was first observed in the Lower Keys.