Alaskapox virus is a “close relative” of human smallpox; has been eliminated and requires supervision. This was stated by RIA News Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Academy of Education (RAO) Gennady Onishchenko.
Before this, the Alaska State Department of Health, where the victim of the virus was found, happened The source of infection in an elderly man may be the cat living with him.
It was noted that the infection may be caused by the American’s weakened immune system due to the cancer he is fighting.
“This is an orthopoxvirus, a close relative, so to speak, of another orthopoxvirus called human smallpox, which we eradicated in 1980. Once we eliminated this, the question immediately arose about closer monitoring of orthopoxviruses,” said the RAO vice president.
According to the expert, alascapox virus was detected in five patients in 2015, and all of them recovered. Onishchenko believes the virus is beginning to cross the interspecies barrier between humans and wildlife.
The academic concluded that Alaskapox should be watched.
In front of this man I got an infection Bubonic plague from your cat.
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