variola
IPA: vˈɛriˈoʊɫʌ
noun
- (pathology) Smallpox.
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Examples of "variola" in Sentences
- The 1982 film Variola Vera is based on the event.
- Cowpox is a poxvirus in the same family as variola.
- The term variola is from the Latin varus, a pimple.
- The case fatality rate for variola minor is 1% or less.
- All four of these viruses are part of the Variola major virus.
- This form of variola major is more easily confused with chickenpox.
- Smallpox is a highly contagious disease caused by the Variola virus.
- The two classic varieties of smallpox are variola major and variola minor.
- There is no evidence of chronic or recurrent infection with variola virus.
- Jenner's leap was to recognize that cowpox bestowed good immunity to variola.
- As an example of a species deliberately made extinct Variola may be a good one.
- It also led Mr. Fenner to study the related variola virus that causes smallpox.
- Luckilly, I was able to get a hold of some variola before the bad men in government started to make it extinct.
- Smallpox, caused by a virus called variola, was declared eliminated in 1980 after a global vaccination campaign.
- The Latin name variola, like the English pox, was applied indiscriminately to syphilis, small-pox, chicken-pox, etc.
- That's because two large government laboratories, one in the U.S. and one in Russia, insist on maintaining stocks of the smallpox virus called variola.
- Others, however, warn that labeling possession of the virus a crime against humanity will in no way deter terrorists, and that without the live smallpox virus, called variola, we won't be able to prepare for the worst.
- European Pressphoto Agency Professor Frank Fenner in 2006 Mr. Fenner, an Australian virologist who died Monday at age 95, led the commission that verified that the World Health Organization ' s decadelong assault on the variola virus had been a success.
- Smallpox virus (scientific name variola major) would be a "good" biological warfare agent because it is unusually robust, can be disseminated through the air as an inhalable aerosol to infect people over a large area, and -- unlike anthrax -- is contagious from one person to another.
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