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

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

Mere weeks ago, the World Health Organization declared a "global health emergency" for the virus, which is related to smallpox, and causes pustules to emerge on one's body along with other fever symptoms.

From Salon • Aug. 3, 2022

Kaposi’s sarcoma was a signal of near-certain death in the 1980s, and now the pustules of monkeypox are a harbinger of searing pain, however temporary and non-deadly.

From Washington Post • Aug. 2, 2022

The drawing at left, from a sixteenth-century codex, is a winter- count-like depiction of a year dominated by smallpox; two men lie dying or dead, their bodies spotted with pustules.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann