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To the Editor: On November 4, 2005, the Poxvirus Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Smallpox and other Poxvirus Infections, was contacted by a former volunteer with Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) with a request for information regarding a child with a generalized pustular rash illness in southern Sudan. On the basis of a review of a photograph of the child (Figure 1), dated October 28, 2005, and limited clinical information describing a febrile period of disease, it was agreed that the findings were suggestive of a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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