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
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
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
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