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n. - A severe viral disease affecting the animals for whom it is named.

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  • With a little genetic engineering camelpox could be used as a bioweapon
  • Iraqi officials also admitted to U.N. weapons inspectors that they had conducted military research on a closely related virus called camelpox, which could have been used...
  • A given organism might be a purely agricultural threat, such as camelpox, to an overlap agent that threatens both humans and agriculture, such as Inspection
  • It had experimented with camelpox, a benign bug in its own right but more likely a stand-in for the much more worrisome smallpox virus.
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