No monkeypox cases have been identified in Alaska yet, but there is a much rarer, much more recently discovered and apparently much more benign cousin of monkeypox: Alaskapox.
July 18, 2022
A northern red-backed vole scampers through a forested area of the Kenai Peninsula. Voles and other small mammals are the likely reservoirs of Alaskapox virus, a recently identified and much more rare relative of the monkeypox virus. Monkeypox, a potentially deadly disease caused by a virulent strain of a virus in the Orthopoxvirus genus, is spreading at an alarming rate, with Farther north, there is a much rarer, much more recently discovered and apparently much more benign cousin of monkeypox: Alaskapox.
From all indications, the reservoir for the Alaskapox virus is small mammals – as is the case with monkeypox, which contrary to its name, appears to be No cases of monkeypox have been detected in Alaska, even though the state Department of Health has As of now, only four people are known to have ever been infected with Alaskapox, three women and one child, all in the Fairbanks area.
Katherine Newell, a CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service officer assigned to the Alaska Department of Health, works with colleague Jeff Doty in the Fairbanks area to collect small mammals that might be carrying the novel Alaskapox virus. The trapping campaign, conducted in September of 2021, found about three dozen small animals with signs of past viral infection or carrying the virus itself. Most of the affected animals were red-backed voles. .
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