variola

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Such diseases as hydrophobia, variola, the glanders, cholera, herpes, etc., can be transmitted from animals to man or the reverse; while monkeys are liable to many of the same non-contagious diseases as we are.

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  1. noun See smallpox.

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  • Functional homologs of human IL-18BP are encoded by all orthopoxviruses, including variola virus, the causative agent of smallpox. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • People would grind up smallpox scabs and snort them because variola virus has a 1\% mortality rate if introduced into the body in this manner. —  Drudge Retort
  • Smallpox was eradicated in 1977, but after September 11, 2001 there has been renewed interest in variola virus (the etiologic agent for smallpox) and its potential use as a bioweapon. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • The lung is the major portal of entry and transmission for variola virus, the etiologic agent of smallpox. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • VACV inoculation by the i.n. route has been used as a model that more closely approximates the route of infection with natural variola (smallpox) virus infections in humans; at high doses of VACV-WR i.n., mice develop fatal lung disease with high viral titers in lung tissue and the brain —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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  1. New Latin, from Medieval Latin, pustule, from Latin varius, speckled.

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  1. = French variole = Spanish viruela, from Middle Latin variola, also variolas, smallpox, from Latin varius, various, spotted: see various.
 

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