Cowpox virus (CPXV) causes most zoonotic orthopoxvirus (OPV) infections in Europe and Northern as well as Central Asia. The virus has the broadest host range of OPV and is transmitted to humans from rodents and other wild ...

Increasing numbers of human cowpox virus infections that are being observed and that particularly affect young nonvaccinated persons have renewed interest in this zoonotic disease. Usually causing a self-limiting local ...