NOUN
- a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars
- a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to 25 percent
How To Use variola major In A Sentence
- 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. Scared Of Smallpox
