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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