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Monkeypox Epidemic: A Throwback From Smallpox Eradication

The emergence of microbial diseases has become a major concern for humans. In the recent past, we have noticed the emergence and re-emergence of several microbes that include coronaviruses (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus {SARS-CoV}, Middle-East respiratory syndrome coronavirus {MERS-C...

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Autores principales: Bethineedi, Lakshmi Deepak, Kutikuppala, Lakshmi Venkata Simhachalam, Kandi, Venkataramana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9351820/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35936131
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26577
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author Bethineedi, Lakshmi Deepak
Kutikuppala, Lakshmi Venkata Simhachalam
Kandi, Venkataramana
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description The emergence of microbial diseases has become a major concern for humans. In the recent past, we have noticed the emergence and re-emergence of several microbes that include coronaviruses (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus {SARS-CoV}, Middle-East respiratory syndrome coronavirus {MERS-CoV}, SARS-CoV-2), and others like Zika virus, Nipah virus, Influenza virus, and Ebola virus. These microbes have been noted to spill over from animals into humans. Several such microbes which were previously restricted to wild animals are now becoming responsible for infections in humans and have spread across the borders and resulted in pandemics. It has been more than two years since the discovery of the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and we are still struggling to cope-up with it and live normal lives. Recently, the monkeypox virus, which was confined to West and Central African countries, and caused endemic infections in monkeys and humans was associated with human infections in non-endemic regions like the United States of America (USA) and more than 30 other countries. Therefore, in this editorial, we attempt to put the spotlight on the monkeypox virus that is currently threatening to cause another widespread pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-93518202022-08-05 Monkeypox Epidemic: A Throwback From Smallpox Eradication Bethineedi, Lakshmi Deepak Kutikuppala, Lakshmi Venkata Simhachalam Kandi, Venkataramana Cureus Infectious Disease The emergence of microbial diseases has become a major concern for humans. In the recent past, we have noticed the emergence and re-emergence of several microbes that include coronaviruses (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus {SARS-CoV}, Middle-East respiratory syndrome coronavirus {MERS-CoV}, SARS-CoV-2), and others like Zika virus, Nipah virus, Influenza virus, and Ebola virus. These microbes have been noted to spill over from animals into humans. Several such microbes which were previously restricted to wild animals are now becoming responsible for infections in humans and have spread across the borders and resulted in pandemics. It has been more than two years since the discovery of the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and we are still struggling to cope-up with it and live normal lives. Recently, the monkeypox virus, which was confined to West and Central African countries, and caused endemic infections in monkeys and humans was associated with human infections in non-endemic regions like the United States of America (USA) and more than 30 other countries. Therefore, in this editorial, we attempt to put the spotlight on the monkeypox virus that is currently threatening to cause another widespread pandemic. Cureus 2022-07-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9351820/ /pubmed/35936131 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26577 Text en Copyright © 2022, Bethineedi 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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Monkeypox Epidemic: A Throwback From Smallpox Eradication
title Monkeypox Epidemic: A Throwback From Smallpox Eradication
title_full Monkeypox Epidemic: A Throwback From Smallpox Eradication
title_fullStr Monkeypox Epidemic: A Throwback From Smallpox Eradication
title_full_unstemmed Monkeypox Epidemic: A Throwback From Smallpox Eradication
title_short Monkeypox Epidemic: A Throwback From Smallpox Eradication
title_sort monkeypox epidemic: a throwback from smallpox eradication
topic Infectious Disease
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9351820/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35936131
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26577
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