Epidemiologists are renaming the disease Alaskapox out of fear that the name of the illness may hamper tourism and stigmatize the state.
Alaskapox, now called Borealpox, gained media spotlight in January following the abrupt death of an elderly man in the remote Kenai Peninsula after he was hospitalized with the disease last November.
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