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

In 1796, Edward Jenner famously took pus from a cowpox pustule of a milkmaid and injected it into his gardener’s 8-year-old son, James Phipps.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2020

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

Scabies broke out among the inmates, and a golf-ball-size pustule grew on Hossein’s nose.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 3, 2018

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