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Rat-to-Elephant-to-Human Transmission of Cowpox Virus

1 Apr 2008

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To the Editor: Despite the eradication of smallpox in the past century, other orthopoxviruses, such as monkeypox virus, vaccinia virus in Brazil, and cowpox virus (CPXV) in Europe (1), still infect humans. CPXV has been restricted to the Old World with wild rodents as its natural reservoir (2,3). Human CPXV infections are commonly described in relation to contact with diseased domestic cats, rarely directly from...

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PMID: 18394293
DOI: 10.3201/eid1404.070817

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