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Alaska Confirms First Fatal Case of Alaskapox
NY Post | 2-11-24 | Patrick ReillyAlaska health officials confirmed the state’s first fatal case of Alaskapox — a recently discovered viral disease.
An elderly immunocompromised man from the Kenai peninsula, south of Anchorage, died while undergoing treatment in late January, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
He is one of only seven reported Alaskapox infections, the Alaska Department of Public Health said in an announcement on Friday.
“People should not necessarily be concerned but more aware,” said Julia Rogers, a state epidemiologist. “So we’re hoping to make clinicians more aware of what Alaskapox virus is, so that they can identify signs and symptoms.”
The double-stranded-DNA virus, which comes from the same genus as smallpox, monkeypox and cowpox, was first identified in an adult in Fairbanks, Alaska in 2015. It is most common in small mammals, like voles [and] shrews.
… commonly found in an Elizabeth Warren.
The fatal case, the first identified outside of Alaska’s interior, took months to diagnose, as Alaskapox cases had previously only shown mild symptoms in patients — typically a localized rash and swollen lymph nodes.
More gain-of-function research going on by Fauci?
Any liberals complaing about it being named after a place like they did the Wuhan Virus?
I don’t know..but alaska…
It’ll never go anywhere with a name like that. If they want it to go viral it’s going to have to be more marketable. Polar plague? Frontier flu? Northern exposure?
Don’t worry it’ll come to me…
Seward’s fever?
Actually, chicken pox like lesions?
It’s probably just the meth.
Okay, that’s it. The election is cancelled.
I’m familiar with cabin fever, snow blindness, frost bite, slipping on the ice and problems starting the car when it’s thirty below, but I’m not familiar with this latest malady of the north. Just sounds to me like something someone made up to say to their boss when they missed a day of work ’cause they went snow machining. However if rumors of such a disease keeps the Californians away…than I’m all for it.
If I recall correctly..that is known as Ski Doo Boo Boo..
Patient Zero has been tentatively identified as a R. Gere…