A highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars.
A type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to 25 percent.
1Smallpox was the common name for the viruses variola major and minor, genus orthopoxvirus, in the poxvirus family.
2The most dangerous bioweapon on the planet is Variola major, a form of the smallpox virus.
3Variola major had a fatality rate of thirty to fifty percent, while variola minor's was under five percent.
Translations for variola major