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variola

/ˌværɪˈəʊlə/

/ˌvɛrɪˈoʊlə/

Translations

variolanoun

variolas

/ˌværɪˈəʊlə/

/ˌvɛrɪˈoʊlə/

Variola is a highly contagious disease.

Оспа - это высокозаразное заболевание.

Additional translations

variolanoun

A virus that causes smallpox, a contagious and sometimes fatal infectious disease characterized by fever and a distinctive skin rash.

The variola virus was responsible for the smallpox outbreaks that occurred before the disease was eradicated.

Smallpox, an acute contagious disease characterized by fever and a pustular rash, caused by the variola virus.

Variola claimed countless lives in the eighteenth century.