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varíola Synonyms
Examples for "smallpox"
Examples for "smallpox"
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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.
3
The documents also castigates U.S. for research into biological weapons and smallpox.
4
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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Some authorities conjecture that the virus of variola belongs to the group of filter-passers.
2
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.