Avipoxvirus
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Avipoxvirus is a member of the Poxviridae family that effects birds only. Poxviruses have generally large genomes, and other such examples might include smallpox, and monkeypox. Avipoxvirus is known to cause symptoms like pustules full of pus lining the skin and dipitheria-like symptoms. These dipitheria-like symptoms might include dipitheric necrotic membranes lining the mouth and the upper respiratory tract. This disease can be transmitted to humans by unusually close contact with birds that are infected or the consuming of liquids or solids that have been in extremely close contact with an infected bird. Not unlike other avian viruses, it can be transkmitted through vectors mechanically such as through mosquitoes.
Avipoxvirus is a virus that is brick shaped and is usually 200 nanometers in diameter. This is much larger than normal viruses which are around 60 nanometers in diameter. This virus can only be contracted through the vectors and consumption of infected items but, they can be filtered by a speciasl water filterer. this fiterer is called a Large Volume Water Sampler (LVWS).
Unlike other viruses, avipoxvirus can withstand extreme dryness. This is because it has adapted to living in the dry mucous membranes of an infected host's upper respiratory tract.
