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Move signals mpox crisis, spread through direct contact with body fluids and causes pus-filled skin lesions, has come under control Thu May 11 2023 - 19:42 The unglamorous, unsung interventions that prevent epidemics Some 2,300 people died in an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Co...
As of 9 May 2023, 111 countries and territories have been affected by the outbreak, with more than 87,314 confirmed cases of monkeypox and 129 deaths reported [1]. The monkeypox virus belongs to the Orthopoxvirus genus and causes a zoonotic disease similar to variola [2]. The monkeypox...
2. The tense situation due to sudden outbreak of monkeypox The Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Benin, Cameroon, Gabon, Sierra Leone, and South Sudan are now endemic for Monkeypox, although no travel ties have been discovered between the rising cases and these ...
The virus causing monkeypox, a rare zoonotic viral disease, belongs to the Poxviridae family and the Orthopoxvirus genus. On 23 July 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the monkeypox outbreak as a Public Health Emergency of International C
Because monkeypox is not a new virus, there are already vaccines and antivirals to prevent and treat the disease it causes, though they are in short supply. The U.S. isalready distributing tens of thousands of dosesof a vaccine called Jynneos in an effort to quash the outbreak. The Foo...
It’s possible that only severe cases were detected in the endemic regions of Africa, and the current outbreak offers a more accurate picture of the disease, Dr. Eckerle said. Or it could be that the virus itself has changed significantly, as has t...
Monkeypox is a zoonotic disease that was once endemic in west and central Africa caused by monkeypox virus. However, cases recently have been confirmed in many nonendemic countries outside of Africa. WHO declared the ongoing monkeypox outbreak to be a public health emergency of international conc...
Monkeypox virus (MPXV), which causes disease in humans, has for many years been restricted to the African continent, with only a handful of sporadic cases in other parts of the world. However, unprecedented outbreaks of monkeypox in non-endemic regions h
Because of this, in this review, we discuss the epidemiology, public health indicators, and prevention of Mpox in the 2022 Peru outbreak so that health authorities can join forces to control MPXV transmission. Keywords: monkeypox outbreak; public health; emergency; Peru ...