pustule

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Each pustule contains live virus, and a ruptured blister can contaminate bed linens and other items, putting close contacts at risk.

From Seattle Times • May 26, 2022

BCG often causes a pustule at the injection site that may persist for months, usually resulting in a scar.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 23, 2020

Hence he was born to perform “Haircut,” a cinder-black vignette of small-town life told by a deceptively cheerful barber who is in truth a walking pustule of malice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2018

In 1796, Jenner took pus from a cowpox pustule on the hand of an infected milkmaid and injected it into the arm of an 8-year-old boy.

From Slate • Jan. 16, 2017

Druzmilla added, “Yeah. That little pustule loves the taste of trash. That’s what she’s after. Snacks.”

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin