| Description: | This image is an even closer view of right axillary region, or armpit, of an Orf virus patient, revealing numbers of both, the “crust”-type, and "vesicle”-type viral lesions. See PHIL 15723, for the image from which this view was taken.
The Orf virus is a pathogen common to sheep and goats, but can at times be transmitted to humans, in which case the virus is known as being “zoonotic”. When a human being becomes infected, the symptoms are mainly confined to the skin, and consist of “weeping” nodules manifesting upon the dorsum, or back of the hands, and which heal in approximately thirty-five days in a spontaneous fashion. |
