pus

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Common symptoms of mpox include a skin rash or lesions filled with pus, which can last from two to four weeks.

From BBC • Oct. 27, 2025

In Season 2, that was an episode titled "Milkmaids" which centered on people quite literally eating pus and made me also quite literally puke.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2024

It also delivered results in less than four hours for urine, pus, and sputum samples, and within one day for blood samples.

From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2024

It involved deliberately infecting someone with the disease by pricking someone else’s smallpox pustule, removing some pus, and placing that pus inside an incision on the recipient’s arm or thigh.

From Slate • Sep. 4, 2023

They were like tiny pimples, each with whitish pus at the tips, and they covered the whole of his face, even his eyelids.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie