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Whats the genus/species for smallpox?

Hades
in Microbiology and Immunology

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is it Orthopoxvirus vaccinia

As already mentioned, smallpox is the variola virus (major or minor). The vaccinia virus is closely related to cowpox and thus used to vaccinate towards smallpox giving birth to the term vaccine.

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