Orf

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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What Wikipedia says

Orf is also called contagious ecthyma, sore mouth disease it is a farmyard pox, and a type of zoonosis. It is caused by a member of the genus Parapoxvirus in the family Poxviridae. Orf virus has an ovoid-shaped virions of ~ 260 by 160 nm and a linear double-stranded DNA genome of 134–139 kb.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Orf (disease)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Dnatheist at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.