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.
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1 Using idle processing power to help create a smallpox drug is great.
2 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 .
5 Critically, vaccination reliably conferred immunity to the far greater scourge of smallpox .
1 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.
3 Ayer reports an instance of congenital variola in twins.
4 The Latin name variola , like the English pox, was applied indiscriminately to syphilis, small-pox, chicken-pox, etc.
5 While the variola virus that causes smallpox has been eliminated, it is still stored in various laboratories.
1 Smallpox was the common name for the viruses variola major and minor, genus orthopoxvirus, in the poxvirus family.
2 The most dangerous bioweapon on the planet is Variola major , a form of the smallpox virus.
3 Variola major had a fatality rate of thirty to fifty percent, while variola minor's was under five percent.
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