This virus claimed the life of a person in the United States whose immune system was weakened by cancer. During oncology treatment, this man contracted Alaskan smallpox and died soon. It is known that a stray cat that came to him from the forest scratched him. The animal’s Alaskapox test was negative.
Alaskapox belongs to the genus Orthopoxviruses. There have been no previous cases of the spread of this virus.
Kryuchkov also admitted that Alaskapoks have epidemic and pandemic potential. However, no epidemic is expected, let alone a pandemic.
“Smallpox was one of the most terrible manifestations of this. “Alaska smallpox” is still extremely far from this, but nothing can be ruled out. We need to get this situation under control, we need to find ways to spread. Frankly, this disease is already one of the problems for us,” he emphasized expert.
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Source: Ferra
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