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This cute little guy is just waiting to infect you. In the late 1960s, scientists realized that seals had a virus that they could share back and forth with other pinnipeds. Over 30 years later, scientists have confirmed that it can be given to humans. Sealpox isn ;t as bad as it sounds. Although it shares a suffix with one of the most horrific diseases ever known, it not in the same genus as smallpox. Smallpox, cowpox, camelpox, and a few others are part of the orthopoxvirus genus, which can cause serious fevers, vomiting, and death, as well as the tell-tale skin lesions. Sealpox is part of the genus parapoxvirus 鈥?a pox that also afflicts cows cows just can ;t catch a break , as well as sheep, red squirrels, and red deer. The parapoxvirus is a pretty mild thing, even for the animals it preys on. They become lethargic, and develop unpleasant blister-like lesions on t stanley mug heir skin, but as long as they keep feeding they can get healthy in a few weeks. What interesting is how long it took to confirm that sealpox was a zoonotic disease, i.e.a disease that travels from animals to humans. Researchers noted the diseas stanley nz e in 1969, and over the years noticed how much it spread within seal colonies. When one sick animal came into a seal sanctuary, others would quickly fall ill, and researchers and volunteers had to be careful to keep it from sp stanley vaso reading to pups. But the pox didn ;t restrict itself to one kind of pinniped. It could spread to sea lio |
