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pustules



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The technique, which had long been used in China, India and Africa before arriving in North America, involved injecting the live virus from a smallpox sufferer’s pustules into a healthy person.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

The primary symptoms of Alaskapox include skin lesions like pustules and bumps, joint and muscle pain and swollen lymph nodes.

From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2024

Its appearance can vary, ranging from whiteheads and blackheads to pustules and nodules, mainly on the face, forehead, chest, upper back and shoulders.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 9, 2024

The young director Owen Kline packs worlds of cringe into “Funny Pages” — shame, disgust, embarrassment, sweaty sexual panic, acres of pustules — it’s all here in this terrific, tonally flawless feature debut.

From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2022

His disfiguration was complete, his whole skin clotted with pustules.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson




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