But it should be understood that the person who failed to cope with the disease had many risk factors: it was an elderly person, had an immunodeficiency caused by taking medications to treat another disease
Nikolai Kryuchkov
doctor-immunologist, candidate of medical sciences
“Now we cannot estimate lethality in a person. Obviously, since it is a new virus for humans, it is usually more lethal. But it is minimally contagious. It is not transmitted from person to person, at least there are no such cases yet. And from animals to a person to be infected also not so easy,” – concluded the immunologist.
Earlier it became known that the new virus Alaskapox for the first time took a human life in the United States. It is noted that the American had weakened immunity due to cancer treatment. He lived alone in a forest area and was in contact with a stray cat, which, according to him, regularly scratched him and hunted small mammals. The animal tested negative for Alaska Smallpox.
