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Alaskapox

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A disease caused by virus Borealpox virus, of the genus Orthopoxvirus, first documented in 2015 in Alaska, United States.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: neologism, uncountable

Topics: biology, microbiology, natural-sciences, virology

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Etymology

Discovered in July 2015, by a woman visited a clinic in Fairbanks, Alaska, with lesions.