What is Alaskapox? A microbiologist explains the recently …
网页2024年2月21日 · Alaskapox is an orthopox virus discovered in 2015 in the Fairbanks area of Alaska. Until the most recent case, there were only six known human infections, which all involved mild illnesses...
What is Alaskapox? Recent death brings attention to virus seen in …
网页2024年2月14日 · Alaska health officials are aware of seven people infected with Alaskapox since the virus was discovered, but the latest case represents the first time someone is known to have died from it.
Borealpox (Alaskapox) virus: will there be more emerging …
网页2024年5月9日 · The left terminal region of the AKMV genome is approximately 6-kb-long, resembles that of cowpox virus, and encodes host range and virulence genes. 9 The borealpox virus genome encodes an A-type inclusion protein that shares sequence similarity with that of ectromelia virus and has potential recombination regions, suggesting that recombination ...
What is Alaskapox? Here's What to Know | TIME
网页2024年2月13日 · Kenai Fjords National Park iStockphoto—Getty Images. By Alice Park. February 13, 2024 3:54 PM EST. A laska’s health department reports that the first person in the state has died from a recently...
What is Alaskapox? Recent death brings attention to virus | AP …
网页2024年2月13日 · This image provided by the Alaska Department of Health shows several Alaskapox lesions. “A” is a lesion about 10 days after symptom onset, and “B” is the same lesion two days later. “C” is a lesion about 5 days after symptom onset, about 1.2 cm across.
What is Alaskapox? The disease has claimed its first fatality
网页2024年2月13日 · An image of an Alaskapox lesion about 10 days after symptom onset. (Alaska Department of Health) By Corinne Purtill Staff Writer. Feb. 13, 2024 11:29 AM PT. Public health officials in Alaska have...
Alaskapox: What to know about virus after officials report first …
网页2024年2月13日 · Health officials in Alaska have identified the first known death linked to a recently discovered virus called Alaskapox. Since its discovery in 2015, seven Alaskapox infections have been...
First Alaskapox death reported: What you should know about the virus
网页2024年2月16日 · Deposit Photos. Health officials in Alaska reported the first known fatality from an uncommon virus known as Alaskapox. An elderly man who contracted the disease died in January, according to a...
Alaskapox death brings attention to small animal virus
网页2024年2月14日 · This image provided by the Alaska Department of Health shows a combination of photos of Alaskapox lesions. "A" is a lesion about 10 days after symptom onset and "B" is the same lesion two days...
Alaskapox: First human death from zoonotic virus is announced
网页2024年2月15日 · State health officials in Alaska have identified the first human to die from a recently discovered virus that appears able to leap from animals to people. Authorities said that the patient, who died in a hospital in Anchorage last month, was an elderly man from the Kenai Peninsula with a history of drug induced immunosuppression from cancer ...