Abstract
In the course of evolution, viruses have mastered various molecular mechanisms to evade defense reactions of the host organism. The understanding of these mechanisms would promote better comprehension of the crucial reactions directed against infectious agents and further insights into their organization and functioning. A considerable contribution to this field of study can be made by investigating orthopoxviruses pathogenic for humans, such as variola, monkeypox, cowpox, and vaccinia viruses. The experimental data reviewed here suggest that variola virus and other orthopoxviruses, in comparison to other virus families, possess an unsurpassed set of genes whose protein products efficiently modulate the diverse defense reactions of the host.
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