variola minor
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Noun | 1. | ![]() alastrim, Cuban itch, Kaffir pox, milk pox, pseudosmallpox, pseudovariola, West Indian smallpox, white pox smallpox, variola, variola major - a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars |
2. | variola minor - a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of about 1 percent smallpox virus, variola virus - the virus that causes smallpox in humans; can be used as a bioweapon |
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