smallpox virus

collocation in English

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smallpox
noun[U]
uk
/ˈsmɔːl.pɒks/us
/ˈsmɑːl.pɑːks/
an extremely infectious disease that causes a fever, spots on the skin, and ...
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virus
noun[C]
uk
/ˈvaɪə.rəs/us
/ˈvaɪ.rəs/
an extremely small piece of organic material that causes disease in humans, animals, ...
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At present such legislation does not appear to be relevant tosmallpoxviruswhich however does present a particular paradox.
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Although thesmallpoxvirusis much larger than polio, the technical feasibility of artificially synthesizing smallpox is perhaps dubious.
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The polio study, for example, reveals that it might be possible to produce thesmallpoxvirusthrough similar procedures.
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Humanity will win its coevolutionary race with some pathogens (the best example is thesmallpoxvirus), continue it with others, and enter into new races with emerging pathogens.
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It is certainly my view that any work onsmallpoxvirusshould be in contained laboratories outside centres of population.
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Scientists know that this virus, which is about one-10,000th the size of thesmallpoxvirus, is one of the most resilient of all viruses.
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According to notifications received under those regulations, the last stocks ofsmallpoxviruswere removed from this country in 1982.
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Today thesmallpoxvirusis extinct.
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The term "variolation" refers solely to inoculation withsmallpoxvirusand is not interchangeable with "vaccination".
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This project helped analyze potential drug candidates for a medical therapy in the fight againstsmallpoxvirus.
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He reveals that thesmallpoxvirusis in the wrong hands, and that they have tried to recreate the serum, but they haven't achieved it.
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By 1979 only four laboratories were known to havesmallpoxvirus.
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Some, such assmallpoxvirusfor example, can infect only one species in this case humans, and are said to have a narrow host range.
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However, even as the disease was being eradicated there still remained stocks ofsmallpoxvirusin many laboratories.
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Smallpoxviruspreferentially attacks skin cells, causing the characteristic pimples (called macules) associated with the disease.
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Variolation used livesmallpoxvirusin the liquid taken from a smallpox blister in a mild case of the disease and carried in a nutshell.
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