Variola used in a sentence

Variola in a sentence as a noun

Because otherwise you might find it fun to ask the next hundred people you meet what "variola" is.

Edward Jenner introduced the variola vaccine in the late 1700s.

The Soviet Union was alleged to have filled a handful of missile warheads with variola, along with anthrax and ricin.

Months later, Jenner exposed Phipps a number of times to variola virus, but Phipps never developed smallpox.

So these scabs would be the product of infection with vaccinia and not variola, if my understanding is correct.

Infection with v. minor induces immunity against the more deadly variola major form.

Weapon development is crazy business and it's the only legitimate use of variola today.

By the mid-20th century variola minor occurred along with variola major, in varying proportions, in many parts of Africa.

"The basis for vaccination began in 1796 when an English doctor named Edward Jenner observed that milkmaids who had gotten cowpox did not show any symptoms of smallpox after variolation.

Patients with variola minor experience only a mild systemic illness, are often ambulant throughout the course of the disease, and are therefore able to more easily spread disease.

An interesting tidbit about the origin of two terms from Wikipedia:> Until the very early 1800s, inoculation referred only to the practice of variolation, the predecessor to the smallpox vaccine.

That's not what those links say:> It is not known whether vaccinia virus is the product of genetic recombination, or if it is a species derived from cowpox virus or variola virus by prolonged serial passage, or if it is the living representative of a now extinct virus.

Proper Noun Examples for Variola

> only two labs in the world __known__ to store live samples of the variola virusVariola virus was everywhere 40 years ago.