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Meanings of smallpox in English
Eradicated human disease.
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Examples for "variola"
Examples for "variola"
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Some authorities conjecture that the virus of variola belongs to the group of filter-passers.
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The term variola is from the Latin varus, a pimple.
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Ayer reports an instance of congenital variola in twins.
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The Latin name variola, like the English pox, was applied indiscriminately to syphilis, small-pox, chicken-pox, etc.
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While the variola virus that causes smallpox has been eliminated, it is still stored in various laboratories.
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Smallpox was the common name for the viruses variola major and minor, genus orthopoxvirus, in the poxvirus family.
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The most dangerous bioweapon on the planet is Variola major, a form of the smallpox virus.
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Variola major had a fatality rate of thirty to fifty percent, while variola minor's was under five percent.
Usage of smallpox in English
1
Using idle processing power to help create a smallpox drug is great.
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According to all accounts, her work during the smallpox epidemic was heroic.
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The documents also castigates U.S. for research into biological weapons and smallpox.
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In the case of the Schröder girl, however, it was the smallpox.
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Critically, vaccination reliably conferred immunity to the far greater scourge of smallpox.
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A fervent appeal the Presidente made to prevent the spread of smallpox.
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Henderson, who played a key role in the global eradication of smallpox.
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He was proved right in the 1980s when smallpox was declared eradicated.
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Gradually diseases like smallpox and unauthorised massacres began wiping out the population.
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Johanna Vavrika had been deeply scarred by smallpox in the old country.
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If you needed a smallpox vaccination, a doctor could give you one.
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Even the few that might have survived are dying of the smallpox.
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Postexposu re administration of 1st generation smallpox vaccines was effective during eradication.
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The Chinese practiced inoculation for smallpox as early as the eleventh century.
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It strengthens with time, and survives the smallpox and a wooden leg.
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It was abandoned-bankedhigh with snow-andover it was the smallpox signal.
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Smallpox through the time
Smallpox across language varieties
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