Making Sense of Monkeypox: A Comparison of Other Poxviruses to the Monkeypox

The current monkeypox (MPX) outbreak has been declared a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) by the World Health Organization (WHO). It is a zoonotic disease that has persisted in the African basin for decades but suddenly exploded into the international sphere this year. In thi...

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Autores principales: Pattnaik, Harsha, Surani, Salim, Goyal, Lokesh, Kashyap, Rahul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Infectious Disease
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10212748/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37252521
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38083
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description The current monkeypox (MPX) outbreak has been declared a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) by the World Health Organization (WHO). It is a zoonotic disease that has persisted in the African basin for decades but suddenly exploded into the international sphere this year. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive overview of monkeypox, including a hypothesis of the rapid spread of the virus, its epidemiology and clinical features, a comparison with other orthopoxviruses such as chickenpox and smallpox, past and present outbreaks, and strategies for its prevention and treatment.
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spelling pubmed-102127482023-05-27 Making Sense of Monkeypox: A Comparison of Other Poxviruses to the Monkeypox Pattnaik, Harsha Surani, Salim Goyal, Lokesh Kashyap, Rahul Cureus Infectious Disease The current monkeypox (MPX) outbreak has been declared a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) by the World Health Organization (WHO). It is a zoonotic disease that has persisted in the African basin for decades but suddenly exploded into the international sphere this year. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive overview of monkeypox, including a hypothesis of the rapid spread of the virus, its epidemiology and clinical features, a comparison with other orthopoxviruses such as chickenpox and smallpox, past and present outbreaks, and strategies for its prevention and treatment. Cureus 2023-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10212748/ /pubmed/37252521 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38083 Text en Copyright © 2023, Pattnaik et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_full Making Sense of Monkeypox: A Comparison of Other Poxviruses to the Monkeypox
title_fullStr Making Sense of Monkeypox: A Comparison of Other Poxviruses to the Monkeypox
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title_short Making Sense of Monkeypox: A Comparison of Other Poxviruses to the Monkeypox
title_sort making sense of monkeypox: a comparison of other poxviruses to the monkeypox
topic Infectious Disease
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10212748/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37252521
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38083
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