1/5. Limited infection upon human exposure to a recombinant raccoon pox vaccine vector.A laboratory accident resulted in human exposure to a recombinant raccoon poxvirus (RCN) developed as a vaccine vector for antigens of yersinia pestis for protection of wild rodents (and other animals) against plague. Within 9 days, the patient developed a small blister that healed within 4 weeks. Raccoon poxvirus was cultured from the lesion, and the patient developed antibody to plague antigen (F1) and RCN. This is the first documented case of human exposure to RCN.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = wild (Clic here for more details about this article) |
2/5. parapoxvirus infections acquired after exposure to wildlife.The histopathologic and electron microscopic findings in two patients with skin lesions that developed after exposure to deer and other wildlife were consistent with a parapoxviral infection. Human infections that were morphologically similar to parapoxvirus infection have been previously described concerning exposure to cervids (deer and related animals). Ours are the first reported cases in which viral particles were demonstrated by electron microscopy.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 5keywords = wild (Clic here for more details about this article) |
3/5. Human poxvirus disease after smallpox eradication.A 5-year-old boy living in a small camp in the rural Ivory Coast had a disease resembling smallpox. This occurred 4 years after smallpox had been eradicated from the Ivory Coast and 1.5 years after the last case of smallpox was detected in West and Central africa. Clinical, serological, and epidemiological evidence indicated this disease was probably monkeypox, a poxvirus of the variola/vaccina subgroup. A serologic survey of poxvirus antibodies in the wild animal population detected neutralizing antibodies in rodents, larger mammals, primates, and birds. The laboratory and ecological characteristics of poxviruses require further elucidation, especially those which have been found in animals near human monkeypox cases.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = wild (Clic here for more details about this article) |
4/5. Ocular cowpox: transmission from the domestic cat to man.A clinicopathological case of ocular cowpox is reported. cowpox is no longer regarded as being enzootic in cattle. The most likely mode of transmission of cowpox to man appears to be from the domestic cat or wild rodents.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = wild (Clic here for more details about this article) |
5/5. Human monkeypox transmitted by a chimpanzee in a tropical rain-forest area of Zaire.A case of monkeypox infection in a six-month-old baby girl who had been bitten by a wild chimpanzee in Kivu, Zaire, was investigated. The child had not been exposed to any monkeypox-like disease and no cases of such disease had occurred in the surrounding area during previous months. The time of onset of rash was consistent with the virus having been transmitted from the chimpanzee. However, it is still not known whether chimpanzees and other primates or lower mammals are the primary reservoir of monkeypox infection.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = wild (Clic here for more details about this article) |