TY - JOUR AU - Campe, Hartmut AU - Zimmermann, Pia AU - Glos, Katharina AU - Bayer, Margot AU - Bergemann, Hans AU - Dreweck, Caroline AU - Graf, Petra AU - Weber, Bianca Kim AU - Meyer, Hermann AU - Büttner, Mathias AU - Busch, Ulrich AU - Sing, Andreas T1 - Cowpox Virus Transmission from Pet Rats to Humans, Germany T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2009 VL - 15 IS - 5 SP - 777 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We describe a cluster of cowpox virus (CPXV) infections in humans that occurred near Munich, Germany, around the beginning of 2009. Previously, only sporadic reports of CPXV infections in humans after direct contact with various animals had been published. This outbreak involved pet rats from the same litter. KW - Zoonoses KW - viruses KW - cowpox KW - outbreak KW - pet rats KW - orthopoxvirus KW - humans KW - Germany KW - expedited KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1505.090159 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/15/5/09-0159_article ER - End of Reference