A U.K. woman developed a severe eye infection thanks to a rare virus — cowpox, a cousin of smallpox, which she contracted from her pet cat. The 28-year-old woman went to the emergency room after ...

In contrast to the disease in cats, cowpox virus does not appear to cause a systemic disease or more widespread skin lesions in cattle; the lesions are limited to the sites of the virus entry ...

Infections are most commonly seen in the autumn and are usually from domestic cats. These tests revealed that the cowpox virus was indeed responsible. Cowpox is a self-limiting disease so the ...

Cat scratch disease, for instance ... including mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) and cowpox, smallpox and vaccinia viruses. It’s not known how the man who died from Alaskapox contracted ...

Alaskapox, also known as AKPV, is related to smallpox, cowpox and mpox ... The man said he had cared for a stray cat at his home, the bulletin said. The cat tested negative for the virus but ...

Today people are most likely to catch cowpox from rats, or cats who pick it up from rodents in the wild – in one unusual case, it was acquired from a circus elephant. Most infections are mild ...

The cat tested negative for the virus — but it ... a “battery of tests” in December and tested positive for cowpox. Additional testing by the Centers for Disease Control revealed it was ...