Usage of "variola major"

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A highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars.

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A type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to 25 percent.

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Examples for "smallpox"

Examples for "smallpox"

Using idle processing power to help create a smallpox drug is great. 
 Wired 

According to all accounts, her work during the smallpox epidemic was heroic. 
 Death du Jour 

The documents also castigates U.S. for research into biological weapons and smallpox. 
 Reuters 

In the case of the Schröder girl, however, it was the smallpox. 
 The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V... 

Critically, vaccination reliably conferred immunity to the far greater scourge of smallpox. 
 The Irish Times 

Some authorities conjecture that the virus of variola belongs to the group of filter-passers. 
 The Scientific Monthly, October to December, 1915 

The term variola is from the Latin varus, a pimple. 
 The Scientific Monthly, October to December, 1915 

Ayer reports an instance of congenital variola in twins. 
 Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 

The Latin name variola, like the English pox, was applied indiscriminately to syphilis, small-pox, chicken-pox, etc. 
 The Age of the Reformation 

While the variola virus that causes smallpox has been eliminated, it is still stored in various laboratories. 
 Reuters 

Usage of variola major in inglês

Smallpox was the common name for the viruses variola major and minor, genus orthopoxvirus, in the poxvirus family. 
 Spiral 

The most dangerous bioweapon on the planet is Variola major, a form of the smallpox virus. 
 The new yorker 

Variola major had a fatality rate of thirty to fifty percent, while variola minor's was under five percent. 
 Spiral 

Translations for variola major

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Meanings of variola major in inglês