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camelpox::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | animal disease |
with a little genetic engineering camelpox could be used as a bioweapon.
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It turns out that camelpox and smallpox are similar even in these outer regions.
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The viruses that cause smallpox and camelpox are both members of the orthopox family.
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The inspectors were dubious, as camelpox does not cause human disease.
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Such cousins include camelpox and the easily obtained vaccinia virus.
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The virus that causes camelpox is an even closer relative of the smallpox virus than scientists believed.
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The new results suggest camelpox itself could pose a threat.
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In 1995, the Iraqi government admitted to UN weapons inspectors that its weapons scientists were working with camelpox.
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But there is a lot of camelpox about.
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This suggests that camelpox might already have some of the genes needed to become a human pathogen, and could evolve to cause disease in people.
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- A viral disease of camels closely related to smallpox; "with a little genetic engineering camelpox could be used as a bioweapon"
- Camelpox is a disease of camels caused by a virus of the family Poxviridae and the genus Orthopoxvirus. It causes skin lesions and a generalized infection. Fatality rates may approach 25 percent in epidemics in young camels, but other cases are generally mild. ...
- A severe disease of camels in northern Africa and southwestern Asia caused by the camelpox virus. This virus has rarely, if ever, caused disease in people. However, the sequence of the camelpox virus genome is most closely related to that of the variola virus, the cause of smallpox. ...
