poxvirus
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poxviruses
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Mpox, called monkeypox until November 2022, is caused by a member of the poxvirus family.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 19, 2024
Variola virus, the most notorious poxvirus and one of the deadliest viruses to have afflicted humans, wreaked havoc by causing smallpox until it was eradicated in 1980.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 2024
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
"We found that A10 defines key structural elements of the core of poxviruses," says Datler.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 2024
Scientists have also found areas of deletions or rearrangements in some monkeypox genomes; these are common in poxviruses and haven’t yet been linked to a change in function.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 13, 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
But poxviruses don’t seem to require specific host receptors, enabling many to infect a wide range of mammalian cells.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 7, 2022
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