Talk:Squirrelpox virus

Disambiguation of UK Squirrelpox from American?
The perspective of this article appears to be generally European and specifically British. Ok, fair enough, considering all the articles written with a generalized American perspective. However, I found this article Googling for "squirrelpox" because I have a squirrel in my yard afflicted by skin lesions, which I thought to be mange but which our local wildlife vet told me looked more like "squirrelpox", which I'd never heard of. I live in the US, New York State to be precise. Sounds like this is the wrong virus. I would suggest the article should more clearly distinguish between "UK Squirrelpox" and the homonymous virus of North America. That distinction should also not only be in "symptoms", but also up top, early on, linking to an article for that virus. I would offer to help, but I lack the expertise on the subject matter. Cheers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thelastemperor (talk • contribs) 16:52, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Untitled
Hi, I added more info on SPPV infection in gray squirrels. It's not true that it doesn't make them sick, just that adults are less vulnerable than young ones and the disease is less serious than in red squirrels. Xenobiologista (talk) 15:18, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Photo?
Perhaps a non-copyright photo of a red squirrel with squirrel pox, there are several images on Google image search, but I don't know if they are copyright or not.

There may already be one on wikicommons, so that might be an idea. I'll have a look when I get a chance, and if I find one will remove this comment, in the mean time, if another user manages to find and insert one, could they leave me a message on my talkpage, thanks.

m8e39 13:04, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Undid SQPV revisions
I reverted the edits by 86.21.102.35 in Nov 2016, which included "It is quite clear from research in the first half of the 20th century that SQPV was endemic in the red squirrel. A paper by Middleton in 1930 clearly indicated clinical symptoms of the disease in red squirrels, and further noted that these symptoms were seen in red squirrels which had not come into contact with grey squirrels." - because: It's only mentioned on http://www.grey-squirrel.org.uk/sqpv.php. Needs more independent sources.
 * No citation given
 * Unable to find mentioned paper by Middleton, 1930
 * SQPV is not the abbreviation used in this article or in general - should be SPPV

Joe (talk) 09:50, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

SQPV
Official abbreviation now seems to be SQPV. See (e.g.) here: McInnes CJ, Wood AR, Thomas K, Sainsbury AW, Gurnell J, Dein FJ, Nettleton PF. Genomic characterization of a novel poxvirus contributing to the decline of the red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) in the UK. J Gen Virol. 2006 Aug;87(Pt 8):2115-25. doi: 10.1099/vir.0.81966-0. PMID: 16847106. Time to edit the article!  SNALWIBMA  ( talk - contribs ) 14:55, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

Parapoxvirus vs separate classification
Do you think it may be beneficial to add why SQPV may be grouped into its own clade rather than parapoxvirus? I think it would add to the article if there was some reasoning behind that statement since the audience will think "what makes SQPV different from other parapoxviruses?" --Raf19275 (talk) 15:51, 8 September 2022 (UTC)