News articles tagged with 'monkeypox'
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Deadly monkeypox virus might cause disease by breaking down lung tissue
— 28 Oct 2010 14:27 | HealthA new study of an exotic, infectious virus that has caused three recent outbreaks in the United States reveals clues to how the virus might damage lungs during infection. The findings…
Virus related to smallpox rising sharply in Africa, UCLA researchers find
— 1 Sep 2010 10:29 | HealthIn the winter of 1979, the world celebrated the end of smallpox, a highly contagious and often fatal viral infection estimated to have caused between 300 and 500 million deaths during…
Mystery solved: Scientists now know how smallpox kills
— 23 Dec 2009 08:42 | HealthA team of researchers working in a high containment laboratory at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA, have solved a fundamental mystery about smallpox that…
Ugandan monkeys harbour evidence of infection with unknown poxvirus
— 23 Apr 2008 14:25 | HealthResearchers report this month that red colobus monkeys in a park in western Uganda have been exposed to an unknown orthopoxvirus, a pathogen related to the viruses that cause smallpox,…
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