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Monkeypox claims new victims: the outbreak in men who have sex with men
Monkeypox has a very prominent regional epidemic. It has been confined to Western and Central African countries. Sporadic cases found in countries outside Africa generally have a history of sojourn in endemic areas. However, the recent multinational outbreak of monkeypox cases in Europe in early May...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9308177/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35871003 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-022-01007-6 |
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author | Liu, Xiaoning Zhu, Zheng He, Yun Lim, Jia Wen Lane, Bethany Wang, Hui Peng, Qiaoli Sun, Liqin Lu, Hongzhou |
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description | Monkeypox has a very prominent regional epidemic. It has been confined to Western and Central African countries. Sporadic cases found in countries outside Africa generally have a history of sojourn in endemic areas. However, the recent multinational outbreak of monkeypox cases in Europe in early May 2022 has revealed a changing epidemiological trend, those confirmed cases had no sojourn history in endemic areas and with a high proportion of cases involving men who have sex with men (MSM). Among the MSM cases, many of them presented atypical clinical manifestations of monkeypox and with other sexually transmitted diseases co-infection. Combined with the high social interactivity in this community, there is likely a higher risk of monkeypox transmission in this population. Establishing an infectious disease surveillance system, maintaining highly vigilant regarding the transmission of monkeypox in MSM, and responding promptly are necessary and effective measures to contain the outbreak. |
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spelling | pubmed-93081772022-07-24 Monkeypox claims new victims: the outbreak in men who have sex with men Liu, Xiaoning Zhu, Zheng He, Yun Lim, Jia Wen Lane, Bethany Wang, Hui Peng, Qiaoli Sun, Liqin Lu, Hongzhou Infect Dis Poverty Commentary Monkeypox has a very prominent regional epidemic. It has been confined to Western and Central African countries. Sporadic cases found in countries outside Africa generally have a history of sojourn in endemic areas. However, the recent multinational outbreak of monkeypox cases in Europe in early May 2022 has revealed a changing epidemiological trend, those confirmed cases had no sojourn history in endemic areas and with a high proportion of cases involving men who have sex with men (MSM). Among the MSM cases, many of them presented atypical clinical manifestations of monkeypox and with other sexually transmitted diseases co-infection. Combined with the high social interactivity in this community, there is likely a higher risk of monkeypox transmission in this population. Establishing an infectious disease surveillance system, maintaining highly vigilant regarding the transmission of monkeypox in MSM, and responding promptly are necessary and effective measures to contain the outbreak. BioMed Central 2022-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9308177/ /pubmed/35871003 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-022-01007-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Liu, Xiaoning Zhu, Zheng He, Yun Lim, Jia Wen Lane, Bethany Wang, Hui Peng, Qiaoli Sun, Liqin Lu, Hongzhou Monkeypox claims new victims: the outbreak in men who have sex with men |
title | Monkeypox claims new victims: the outbreak in men who have sex with men |
title_full | Monkeypox claims new victims: the outbreak in men who have sex with men |
title_fullStr | Monkeypox claims new victims: the outbreak in men who have sex with men |
title_full_unstemmed | Monkeypox claims new victims: the outbreak in men who have sex with men |
title_short | Monkeypox claims new victims: the outbreak in men who have sex with men |
title_sort | monkeypox claims new victims: the outbreak in men who have sex with men |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9308177/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35871003 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-022-01007-6 |
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