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Many years of research on treatments for smallpox have led to the development of products that may also be useful for treating mpox, it adds. It says an antiviral developed to treat smallpox called tecovirimat was approved by the European Medicines Agency for the treatment of mpox ...
What is the common name for Mycobacterium tuberculosis? Where does tuberculosis come from? What type of bacteria is Mycobacterium tuberculosis? What are the virulence factors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis? Why is tuberculosis an important infectious disease?
But, if you wanted to catch a case of smallpox, the only sure place to find it would be in a handful of government laboratories. Smallpox is spread by the variola virus, which causes fever, body aches, and a rash that quickly develops into fluid-filled bumps. These bumps scab and ...
Today, thanks to vaccines, smallpox has been eradicated worldwide, meaning it's essentially extinct; and polio has been eliminated in many countries, so the disease is no longer endemic to those places. With the success of vaccines for infectious diseases in mind, scientists have wondered if ...
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Mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) is a viral disease from the same family as smallpox, though its symptoms usually aren't as serious. Scientists have known about it since 1958, when it was found in lab monkeys used for research. Mpox is most common in Central and West Africa. But in...
Mpox is a disease caused by a virus in the same family as smallpox, though usually less severe. What you need to know about the current outbreak in 2024.
carrying the disease. Contrary to its namesake, monkeys aren’t reservoirs or common hosts of monkeypox. In fact, the virus is most often traced to rodents. It’s from the same family as other poxviruses including smallpox (called orthopoxviridae) and was first discovered in humans in...
Isolated cases of monkeypox are occasionally spotted outside Africa, including in the U.S. and Britain. The cases are typically associated with travel to Africa or contact with animals from areas where the disease is more common. In 2003, 47 people in six U.S. states had confirmed or prob...