2,3 The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated the monkeypox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.4 As of November 28, 2022, there were 81 107 laboratory-confirmed cases reported worldwide in the current outbreak.5 In the US, a total of 29 325 cases were...
Thousands of people around the world have been infected by the monkeypox outbreak in 2022, which followed several years of sporadic cases outside of Africa (United Kingdom,86,87,88Singapore,89,90Israel,91,92United States93). On May 2022, multiple cases of monkeypox were identified in the U...
Fig. 1. Map of Africa showing countries reporting human Monkeypox cases (1971–2019). Recently, concern has been raised about the emergence of MPXV as well as the resemblance of its clinical presentation to that of smallpox, a deadly disease globally eradicated by vaccination 40 years ago.9...
Since the International Health Regulations (IHR) were revised in 2005 in the aftermath of SARS, WHO has declared a PHEIC 6 times: for H1N1 influenza, polio, Zika, COVID-19, and Ebola (twice). Currently, WHO has declared 3 emergencies worldwide (COVID-19, polio, and monkeypox), placing...
Monkeypox is spread through close skin-to-skin contact and prolonged exposure to respiratory droplets. It can cause a rash, fever, body aches and chills. Relatively few people require hospitalizations and only a handful of deaths worldwide have been directly linked to the disease. ...
According to the Global Health Network, more than 64,000 monkeypox cases have currently been confirmed worldwide between January and September 2022. Already 3,570 cases of these come from Germany. Registered are such cases outside the African continent since the spring of 2022, in which the af...
Monkeypox is related to smallpox, which was eradicated worldwide in 1980, thanks to thesmallpox vaccine. Both illnesses cause a distinctive rash that lasts for about a month. Smallpox had a higher fatality rate than monkeypox. It usually takes seven to 14 days after a person is exposed to...
Monkeypox is an emerging infectious disease with confirmed cases and deaths in several parts of the world. In light of this crisis, this study aims to analyze the global knowledge pattern of monkeypox-related patents and explore current trends and future technical directions in the medical developm...
26 Outbreaks Worldwide, the DRC has the highest number of cases with more than 1000 cases each year since 2005. The disease is endemic in the DRC, with epidemic fluctuations. A big outbreak occurred in the province of Sankuru (Kole) in 1996 and is ongoing in the Maniema province (Tunda...
the agency said. monkeypox, a relatively mild viral illness that is endemic in several countries in western and central africa, exploded around the world earlier this year. there have since been more than 80,000 cases worldwide, according to the u.s. centers for disease control and preventi...