The floating mountains of Pandora are one of features of The World of Avatar, opening May 27 at Disneyâs Animal Kingdom. On the Naâvi River Journey, guests will ride in canoes on a sacred river through a bioluminescent rainforest ending with an encounter with a Naâvi shaman.
1 Types: Variola major, or smallpox, has a death rate of 30%. 2  Variola minor, or alastrim, is a milder form of the virus with a death rate of 1%. 3  Four types of variola exist: classic, hemorrhagic, malignant, and modified.
An infection of the variola virus starts out with flu-like symptoms, then rashes and scabs form throughout  similar to chickenpox, eventually in fatal cases, leading to malignant diseases such as intravascular coagulation, hypotention, cardiovascular collapse or bleeding of skin and intestinal tract (IOM, 1999).he only other choice is prevention through the use of the vaccine (Mayo, 2002). The smallpox vaccine is a live vaccine, derived from the vaccinia virus. The vaccine does not contain or cause a variola infection.