poxvirus
Americannoun
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poxviruses
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These had been developed and stockpiled in the US and Europe, mostly in preparation for a potential bioweapon attack using a poxvirus.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2024
Separate from WHO’s decision, ICTV’s poxvirus group had a vote on whether to change the scientific name for the virus that causes mpox.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024
The findings, published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, could facilitate future research on therapeutics targeting the poxvirus core.
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
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
A June paper in Nature Medicine surprised researchers when it reported that the virus that was spreading through Europe had picked up single-letter mutations much faster than previous poxviruses had.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 13, 2022
Generalist poxviruses that infect many different hosts, including monkeypox and cowpox, tend to have more genes in the terminal regions, whereas smallpox, which specializes in infecting humans, has many fewer.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 15, 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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