New threat from poxviruses.

• Autores: Sonia Shah
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 308, Nº. 3, 2013, págs. 66-71
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses public health and emerging diseases as of March 2013, with a focus on the potential threat of poxviruses such as monkeypox and cowpox. Topics include the development of smallpox vaccines and the disease's announced eradication in 1979 by the World Health Organization, the Orthopox virus genus, and transmission of poxviruses via animals. Additional information is presented on how the general population has lost its immunity to poxviruses previously controlled by the smallpox vaccine.