Definition of "camelpox" []

• A viral disease of camels closely related to smallpox (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "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 as a "surrogate" to develop production and dissemination techniques for smallpox virus."
• "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."