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 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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