The alteration involves adding a marker gene to the virus that would glow green under a fluorescent light if the smallpox virus was still alive but would not react if it was dead, WHO spokesman ...

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Still, the 17th-century variola virus DNA detected by Duggan and colleagues is the oldest definitive trace of smallpox that researchers have found.

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The specific term for what Lady Mary and Boylston were doing 75 years earlier is variolation, or inoculation with variola, the smallpox virus. "Their story got swept under the rug after Jenner.

The document notes that the delta variant, which was first detected in India, causes infections that are more contagious than the common cold, flu, smallpox and Ebola virus.

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