poxvirus
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The eradication succeeded thanks to an extensive vaccination campaign using another poxvirus, the aptly named Vaccinia virus.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 2024
MPXV, a member of the poxvirus family, is spread by intimate personal contact.
From Science Magazine ● May 10, 2023
Justice, in my mind, would be for your boss to have to go confess to the new gym owner that he passed along a potentially toxic candidate like a used tumbling mat covered with poxvirus.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2023
In past outbreaks involving this poxvirus, animals — especially rodents — have been the primary source of transmission to humans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2022
Vaccinia normally infects cattle and is a type of poxvirus, a family of viruses that includes smallpox and monkeypox.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2022
A recent re-emergence and outbreak of Mpox brought poxviruses back as a public health threat, underlining an important knowledge gap at their core.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 2024
But poxviruses can evolve in other, more drastic ways than single nucleotide changes.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 15, 2022
Previous studies on poxviruses like monkeypox have shown that they can stay active in fecal matter.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2022
For now, only designated U.S. military personnel and laboratory researchers who work with certain poxviruses may receive this vaccine.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2022
Some experts have cautioned for years that the eradication of smallpox in 1980 left the world vulnerable to the broader family of poxviruses and raised the odds of monkeypox evolving into a successful human pathogen.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
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