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PRO/EDR> Orthopoxvirus infection – USA: (AK)
Other Human Disease -- United StatesBackgroundHuman infection by orthopoxviruses is being reported with increasing frequency, attributed in part to the cessation of smallpox vaccination and concomitant waning of population-level immunity. In July 2015, a female resident of interior Alaska, presented to an urgent care clinic with a dermal lesion consistent with poxvirus infection. Laboratory testing of a virus isolated from the lesion confirmed infection by an Orthopoxvirus.MethodsThe virus isolate Read more [...]
