Pox

Pox may refer to:

Diseases

• Chickenpox, a highly contagious illness caused by a primary infection with varicella zoster virus (VZV)
• Poxviridae

• Buffalopox, a disease of buffaloes
• Catpox, a disease of cats
• Camelpox, a disease of camels
• Canarypox, a disease of wild and captive birds
• Cowpox, a rodent disease that can infect cattle, and also transmissible to humans; used for vaccination against smallpox
• Dog pox, an infection of canines
• Fowlpox, an infectious disease of poultry
• Goatpox, an infectious disease of goats
• Horse pox, an infectious disease of horses
• Monkeypox, an infectious rodent disease than can infect primates
• Mousepox, an iatrogenic infectious disease of laboratory mice
• Myxomatosis, "rabbit pox", an infectious disease of wild rabbits
• Pigeon pox, an infectious disease of pigeons
• Plum pox, the most devastating viral disease of stone fruit from the genus “Prunus”
• Rabbitpox, an iatrogenic infectious disease of laboratory rabbits
• Raccoonpox, a disease of raccoons caused by the Raccoonpox virus
• Red deerpox a disease caused by the red deerpox virus
• Rickettsialpox, a rickettsial disease spread by mites
• Sealpox, a skin condition caused by a parapoxvirus
• Sheeppox, an infectious disease of sheep
• Skunkpox, a disease of skunks
• Smallpox, an eradicated infectious disease unique to humans, caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor
  • Hemorrhagic smallpox, a severe manifestation of smallpox caused by bleeding under the skin
• Squirrel pox, an infectious disease of squirrel
• Swinepox, an infectious disease of swine
• Syphilis, also known as grande verole, the “great pox”, a sexually transmitted disease caused by the spirochetal bacteria Treponema pallidum pallidum
• Turkeypox, a disease of turkeys
• White pox disease, a coral disease

Arts, entertainment, and media

Games

• P-O-X, a 2001 handheld electronic game
• Pox: Save the People, a 2010 board game and mobile game
• PoxNora, a 2006 multiplayer online game that combines a collectible card game with a turn-based strategy game in a fantasy setting

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Orthopox 13, a character in the video game series Destroy All Humans!
• The P.O.X., a German band
• House of X and Powers of X (HOX/POX)
• "Pox", a song by Xiu Xiu from La Forêt

Food and drink

• Pox (drink), a ceremonial drink common among the Maya, especially those in Chamula
• Candy Buttons, also called "pox", small rounded pegs of candy that are attached to a strip of paper
• Premature oxidation of wine

Other uses

• Istiblennius pox, a kind of fish found in the Indian Ocean
• Plain Old XML, basic XML, a computer data representation format
• Partial oxidation, or POX, a chemical reaction
• Pontoise – Cormeilles Aerodrome, an airport in France with IATA code POX
• President's Overseas XV, a 1971 squad of the English Rugby Football Union

See also

• Plague (disambiguation), another general term for disease