Rev. Poppy Haze on Nostr: in 2015, a Fairbanks area resident turned up with a smallpox-like illness. Genetic ...

in 2015, a Fairbanks area resident turned up with a smallpox-like illness. Genetic analysis showed it's a completely new Old World poxvirus, not a derivative of smallpox, cowpox, or monkeypox

it might be a permafrost defrost terror

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2024/02/09/state-reports-first-known-fatal-case-of-alaskapox/