variola

How To Use variola In A Sentence

• The Smallpox virus, or variola, has been wreaking havoc across the globe for thousands of years.
• 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. Breaking News: CBS News
• 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. Virologist Helped Eradicate Smallpox
• Luckilly, I was able to get a hold of some variola before the bad men in government started to make it extinct. Mosquitoes and Eggs
• No current technology is capable of discriminating variola from vaccinia (ie, the acute infectious disease caused by smallpox vaccination).
• It suggested that immunizing humans against smallpox might protect them against genetically engineered variola as well.
• The Latin name variola, like the English pox, was applied indiscriminately to syphilis, small-pox, chicken-pox, etc. The Age of the Reformation
• It also led Mr. Fenner to study the related variola virus that causes smallpox. Virologist Helped Eradicate Smallpox
• Stocks of variola, the virus that causes the disease, remained in two locations - one in the United States and one in Russia.
• Other viruses in this group that can cause infection in humans include variola, vaccinia (used in smallpox vaccine), and cowpox viruses.