Poxviruspasado, presente y futuro
- María Cristina Lobato Martín
- Elena Pérez Gimeno
- Vicente Peruyero Gil
- Raquel Sáez Sáez
- María Isabel Gegúndez Cámara dir.
- Cuadros González, Juan (dir.)
- Gegúndez Cámara, María Isabel (dir.)
- Florido Calleja, María Jesús (ed. lit.)
- Consuelo Giménez Pardo (dir.)
- María Rosario González Palacios (dir.)
- Lourdes Lledó García (dir.)
- Juan Romanyk (dir.)
- José Vicente Saz Pérez (dir.)
Publisher: Editorial Universidad de Alcalá ; Universidad de Alcalá
ISBN: 9788416599493
Year of publication: 2017
Pages: 15-30
Type: Book chapter
Abstract
For millenia Poxvirus family has threatened mankind, having been small- pox virus its most notorious pathogen agent, responsible for a 60% decreasement in European population throughout the Middle Ages. Efforts to erradicate this virus summit in a successful vaccination campaign which ended in the late 20th century. At present the importance of this family relays on certain zoonotic emerging species, still endemic but showing great potential to become pandemic, such as Monkeypox virus, Orfvirus, Molluscum contagiosum, Tanapox virus and Yabapox virus. All of them responsible for stigmatizing skin disorders. The immunologic status of the vast majority of world’s population remains unknown, as a consequence of both the discontinuity of vaccination programs and the lack of information about how well this vaccine protects against the previously mentioned emerging species. As a matter of fact, this feeds fear for the possibility of a new smallpox outbreak, either accidental or intentional, since there still exist governmental reserves.