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alastrim  

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  • Alastrim, also known as variola minor, was the milder strain of Variola virus that caused smallpox. The last known case of variola minor was in Somalia, Africa in 1977. Smallpox was formally declared eradicated on May 8, 1980.Variola minor is of the genus Orthopoxvirus, which are DNA viruses that replicate in the cytoplasm of the affected cell, rather than in its nucleus. (Wikipedia)

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