Sealpox

Sealpox
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Sealpox is a cutaneous (skin) condition caused by a Parapoxvirus, usually affecting seal handlers who have been bitten by infected harbor or grey seals.<ref name="Andrews">,

 Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: clinical Dermatology, 
  
 Saunders Elsevier, 
 2006, 
  
  
 ISBN 978-0-7216-2921-6,</ref>  First identified in 1969,<ref>Dunn, J. Lawrence, 
 Some Clinical Aspects of Seal Pox in Captive Atlantic Harbor Seals, 
 The Journal of Zoo Animal Medicine, 
 1974,
 Vol. 5(Issue: 4),
 pp. 27–30,
 DOI: 10.2307/20094269,</ref> it wasn't unequivocally proven to be transmissible to humans until 2005,<ref name="pmid15840117">, 
 Human sealpox resulting from a seal bite: confirmation that sealpox virus is zoonotic, 
 Br. J. Dermatol., 
 
 Vol. 152(Issue: 4),
 pp. 791–3,
 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2005.06451.x,
 PMID: 15840117,</ref> though such transmission had been reported at least as early as 1987.<ref>Hastings, Barkley E., 
 An Epizootic of Seal Pox in Pinnipeds at a Rehabilitation Center, 
 Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 
 
 Vol. 20(Issue: 3),
 pp. 282–290,</ref> It causes lesions that closely resemble those caused by orf.<ref name="pmid15840117"/> As many as 2% of seals in marine mammal rehabilitation facilities in North America may have it.<ref name="pmid22172454">, 
 Sealpox virus in marine mammal rehabilitation facilities, North America, 2007-2009, 
 Emerging Infect. Dis., 
 
 Vol. 17(Issue: 12),
 pp. 2203–8,
 DOI: 10.3201/eid1712.101945,
 PMID: 22172454,
 PMC: 3311194,</ref>

See also

• Farmyard pox
• Tanapox
• Skin lesion