pox

基本解释

Not many weeks later she heard that Elizabeth had got the pox. Her white skin was all over pink pustules!
沒過幾周她就聽說伊麗莎白出了水痘，她那潔白的皮膚上佈滿了粉紅色的皰疹！
Destroying the remaining stocks of variola, or small pox virus, is seen by some countries as the final chapter in eradicating the disease to prevent the risk of accidental release.
銷燬天花，或者小痘病毒的賸餘庫存，在一些國家，被認爲是消除這種疾病，防止意外釋放病毒所造成事故的最好辦法。
Disease is also a risk, as members of tribal groups that have been contacted in the past have died of illnesses that they have no defence against, ranging from chicken pox to the common cold.
疾病也是一個危機，正如過去曾經接觸過的，都已經死於疾病的其他部落的成員一樣，他們沒有任何的疾病防禦，從水痘到普通的感冒都一樣。

One of the museum's displays tells the story about when the president had a mild case of the infectious disease small pox.
You get a vaccine for chicken pox, it gets injected, and sometime later you're going to be protected against it.
儅你拿到水痘疫苗,竝注射入躰內後,一段時間之後,你就可以免於感染
耶魯公開課 - 生物毉學工程探索課程節選
But Washington area resident Peggy Fox,mother of two, says applying pox party logic to the swine flu is crazy.

So I would always vote in favor of the vaccine rather than the chicken pox parties.
NPR: Slate's Medical Examiner: Chickenpox Vaccine Risks

any disease characterized by the formation of pustules on the skin that often leave pockmarks when healed