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• n  a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)
• n  a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks

• As unpleasant as its itchy rash can be, getting chicken pox may still be the best way to protect against catching it again, especially in the youngest children.
• She was seven years old at the time and had developed chicken pox three days earlier, but her pox had caused a "really bad headache.
• As unpleasant as its itchy rash can be, getting chicken pox may still be the best way to protect against catching it again, especially in the youngest children.

• syphilis
• syph
• lues venerea
• lues

News & Articles

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• EC-Council Warns of Cyber Plague at United States National Security Agency Colloquium
  Jay Bavisi, president of EC-Council, warns academic minds to introduce cyber vaccination programs via secure code education in his opening keynote address of the US National Security Agency's CISSE Colloquium 2013. Bavisi pointed out that while the medical industry has been able to nearly eradicate diseases such as polio and small pox through medical vaccinations, the information security ...
  June 12, 2013 - PRWeb
• Pox and the City: A public health history game
  Learn about the conquest of smallpox, once known as the “speckled monster," through role-playing. Wanna be a virus?
  June 11, 2013 - Philly.com

Quotes

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• Robert Karlsson in Scotsman
  I just took an extra week off after playing a lot of golf in the summer,Karlsson said. "I never had any injury and had no treatment. I just enjoyed three weeks with my family, although the kids having chicken pox meant I did not have much...
• Tamim Iqbal in NDTV.com
  We were not allowed to go anywhere near him (last week), he was staying alone, and only the guys who'd had chicken pox before were allowed to go and see him,Tamim said. "I asked my mother if I'd ever had chicken pox and she said I hadn't,...
• Ann Wright in Reuters
  One of the primary goals of the plum pox eradication program was to prevent the widespread distribution of this disease to other stone fruit-producing states,said Ann Wright, deputy undersecretary for USDA's marketing and regulatory programs....