Alaskapox, a rare virus mostly found in small mammals such as voles and shrews and first identified in a human in 2015, has proven fatal for a human for the first time. An Alaska man died last month of the virus, which can cause skin lesions, swollen lymph nodes, and muscle or joint pain, the New York Times reports. A CDC epidemiologist tells the newspaper symptoms of the virus are typically mild, meaning there could have been cases in the past that have gone unreported—officially, just seven people have been diagnosed with the virus, all of them in Alaska and six of them in the Fairbanks Nort…