US EditionElderly Alaska man is first reported person to die of recently discovered Alaskapox virus
- An elderly man from Alaska with a weakened immune system has died from Alaskapox, the first reported fatal case of the viral disease.
- Alaskapox, a virus related to smallpox, monkeypox, and cowpox, was first identified in Fairbanks in 2015 and is most common in small mammals.
- The man's infection suggests that Alaskapox is more widely distributed in animals than previously thought, according to scientists from the Alaska Department of Health.
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Alaskan health officials reported the first case of a patient who died from a virus found mainly in small mammal populations in that region of North America, called Alaskapox
La muerte de un anciano por viruela de Alaska , la primera conocida por este patógeno recientemente descubierto, ha puesto el foco en una enfermedad que afecta principalmente a pequeños mamíferos de esta región de Norteamérica. Se trata de un ortopoxvirus que se identificó por primera vez en un paciente en Fairbanks, Alaska, en 2015. Se sabe que esta familia de virus infecta a los mamíferos, incluidos los humanos , y pueden provocar el desarro…
Orthopoxviren: Wohl erster Mensch nach Infektion mit Alaskapocken-Virus gestorben
Nur sieben Infektionen sind bisher bekannt, nun ist erstmals ein Mensch gestorben, der sich mit dem Alaskapocken-Virus infiziert hatte. Über das Virus, das wohl von kleinen Säugetieren übertragen wird, ist vieles unklar.
The first victim of the Alaskan smallpox virus AKPV was an elderly man from the remote Kenai Peninsula who was hospitalized in January and died at the end of the month. This was reported by The Guardian, citing a bulletin from the Public Health Office. The virus was discovered in 2015 and only seven cases of AKPV are known so far.
In the USA, a person has probably died for the first time following an infection with the novel Alaska virus.
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