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Mpox: Risks and approaches to prevention
Since early May 2022, an outbreak due to Mpox virus (formerly called monkeypox) has occurred in many countries around the world. On July 23, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak ‘Public Health Emergency of International Concern’. In order to combat the outbreak, it is important to hav...
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The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences.
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10074767/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37062165 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2023.04.001 |
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author | Amer, Fatma Khalil, Hend E.S. Elahmady, Mohammed ElBadawy, Nissreen E. Zahran, Wafaa Ahmed Abdelnasser, Moustafa Rodríguez-Morales, Alfonso J. Wegdan, Ahmed A. Tash, Rehab M.Elsaid |
author_facet | Amer, Fatma Khalil, Hend E.S. Elahmady, Mohammed ElBadawy, Nissreen E. Zahran, Wafaa Ahmed Abdelnasser, Moustafa Rodríguez-Morales, Alfonso J. Wegdan, Ahmed A. Tash, Rehab M.Elsaid |
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description | Since early May 2022, an outbreak due to Mpox virus (formerly called monkeypox) has occurred in many countries around the world. On July 23, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak ‘Public Health Emergency of International Concern’. In order to combat the outbreak, it is important to have effective infection prevention and control plans. The first step is to qualitatively and quantitatively determine the risks of infections, followed by the design and implementation of infection prevention and control measures. Mpox is transmitted through direct, indirect, and prolonged contact, through sexual transmission, and via the respiratory route. Men who have sex with men are identified as the most vulnerable population. Home pet-raisers, and health care workers are at risk of catching the disease. The outcome of infection is catastrophic among the elderly, immunocompromised individuals, pregnant female and children. The spillover to animals is of great concern. It is important to communicate the risks and have community engagement in the control of this outbreak. The availability of vaccines will add to the capability of containing the outbreak. It is critical to prevent the virus from spreading further. Hence, we review the recent findings on the risk management of Mpox along with the preventive strategies. |
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spelling | pubmed-100747672023-04-06 Mpox: Risks and approaches to prevention Amer, Fatma Khalil, Hend E.S. Elahmady, Mohammed ElBadawy, Nissreen E. Zahran, Wafaa Ahmed Abdelnasser, Moustafa Rodríguez-Morales, Alfonso J. Wegdan, Ahmed A. Tash, Rehab M.Elsaid J Infect Public Health Review Since early May 2022, an outbreak due to Mpox virus (formerly called monkeypox) has occurred in many countries around the world. On July 23, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak ‘Public Health Emergency of International Concern’. In order to combat the outbreak, it is important to have effective infection prevention and control plans. The first step is to qualitatively and quantitatively determine the risks of infections, followed by the design and implementation of infection prevention and control measures. Mpox is transmitted through direct, indirect, and prolonged contact, through sexual transmission, and via the respiratory route. Men who have sex with men are identified as the most vulnerable population. Home pet-raisers, and health care workers are at risk of catching the disease. The outcome of infection is catastrophic among the elderly, immunocompromised individuals, pregnant female and children. The spillover to animals is of great concern. It is important to communicate the risks and have community engagement in the control of this outbreak. The availability of vaccines will add to the capability of containing the outbreak. It is critical to prevent the virus from spreading further. Hence, we review the recent findings on the risk management of Mpox along with the preventive strategies. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. 2023-06 2023-04-05 /pmc/articles/PMC10074767/ /pubmed/37062165 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2023.04.001 Text en © 2023 The Authors Elsevier has created a Monkeypox Information Center (https://www.elsevier.com/connect/monkeypox-information-center) in response to the declared public health emergency of international concern, with free information in English on the monkeypox virus. The Monkeypox Information Center is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its monkeypox related research that is available on the Monkeypox Information Center - including this research content - immediately available in publicly funded repositories, with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the Monkeypox Information Center remains active. |
spellingShingle | Review Amer, Fatma Khalil, Hend E.S. Elahmady, Mohammed ElBadawy, Nissreen E. Zahran, Wafaa Ahmed Abdelnasser, Moustafa Rodríguez-Morales, Alfonso J. Wegdan, Ahmed A. Tash, Rehab M.Elsaid Mpox: Risks and approaches to prevention |
title | Mpox: Risks and approaches to prevention |
title_full | Mpox: Risks and approaches to prevention |
title_fullStr | Mpox: Risks and approaches to prevention |
title_full_unstemmed | Mpox: Risks and approaches to prevention |
title_short | Mpox: Risks and approaches to prevention |
title_sort | mpox: risks and approaches to prevention |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10074767/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37062165 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2023.04.001 |
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