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• n  a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars

• Theres one called variola minor, which has a very low death rate, and one called variola major, which has the 30 percent death rate.
• There are two forms of smallpox: variola major, which is the most severe and common form, manifests as a widespread, distinctive rash and high fever; and variola minor, which is .
• They had no idea what traveler had carried the disease or where he had come from, but the smallpox proved to be the mild form, variola minor or alastrim.

• smallpox
• variola major

News & Articles

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• Scientists recommend further research, delay in destruction of last stocks of smallpox
  Variola, the virus that causes smallpox, is on the agenda of the upcoming meeting of the World Health Assembly, the governing body of the World Health Organization. The body will decide whether the last known remaining live strains of the virus should be destroyed. An international group of scientists from the US CDC, argue that the WHA should not choose destruction, because crucial scientific ...
  May 2, 2014 - Science Daily

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in The Australian
  Overall, it was clear to everyone that the intricate, highly specialized process of variola replication provides a wealth of scientific opportunities for the development of new drugs that should be able to stop viral infection without damaging... Bruce Alberts http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Alberts&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHSSGhTSFPa9sxvvqGgGiLKK5djXg Science Daily (press release) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/07/040713081906.htm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHzehExdUH2gUUaVWBV4CenOupeXQ Jul 13, 2004 107230 140508 various The separation between the various parties involved has been vastly overstated," Mr Obama said.