Posted on 02/11/2024 1:26:27 PM PST by dynachrome
Alaska 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 shrews.
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.
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“An elderly ‘immunocompromised’ man “
More fear porn?
So will my old smallpox vaccine be protective against this?
Chicken pox leaves one susceptible to shingles later in life.
Alaskapox......Cedar shakes?
Quick, mask up for the greater good. Let’s do this together to flatten the curve!
Time for a new vaccine.
Oh... so now it’s ok again to name the virus after where it was first discovered again because “majority white area?”
What BS.
I thought they didn’t name COVID the Hunan Virus or China Virus because it was discriminatory to name viruses with a geographical reference.
Now, Alaskapox is okay?
We still call Covid the ‘Wu Flu’.
(It came from CHIna...)
Eighty four million things: Mail in ballots.
“It’ll only be for two weeks” ™
Yup
It’s interesting, but in the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic the Alaskan native population (Inuits, etc.) were particularly hard hit, as they apparently had no natural immunity to that flu.
Two generations to flatten the curve.
Your smallpox vaccine is likely useless by now.
immunocompromised
The elderly immunocompromised man was immunocompromised because of??? (vax?)
You do know why they called it “The Spanish Flu”, right?
Because, Spain being neutral, didn’t have censorship in place, unlike all the countries fighting. So the first stories came from the Spanish press, and that’s why it was called “The Spanish Flu”.
Speculation is, that was maybe the main factor in the Germans losing the war, as they were wiped out by the flu.
“Two generations to flatten the curve.”
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
You could flatten just about EVERY curve in two generations.
Sooo...every State will now have its own Pox?
“ The double-stranded-DNA virus, which comes from the same genus as smallpox, monkeypox and cowpox”
He was probably a fag
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