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A narrative review of pox: smallpox vs monkeypox

The famed variola (smallpox) virus and the monkeypox virus (MPXV) are closely related, and MPXV causes a milder form of febrile rash disease in people. Human monkeypox was mostly an uncommon zoonotic illness that was restricted to West and Central African wooded areas in the twentieth century. The g...

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Autores principales: Jayswal, Samiksha, Kakadiya, Jagdish
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9746567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36530575
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43162-022-00174-0
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description The famed variola (smallpox) virus and the monkeypox virus (MPXV) are closely related, and MPXV causes a milder form of febrile rash disease in people. Human monkeypox was mostly an uncommon zoonotic illness that was restricted to West and Central African wooded areas in the twentieth century. The global population’s smallpox vaccine-induced immunity, however, has started to decrease as the number of cases and the geographic breadth have both increased significantly in this century. Several countries have seen human monkeypox outbreaks since May 2022. A possible shift in the monkeypox transmission pattern that might represent a bigger worldwide danger is raised by the atypical nature of these outbreaks, which are characterized by their high-case numbers and absence of ties to endemic countries. Here, we explore a wide range of MPXV biology topics.
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spelling pubmed-97465672022-12-14 A narrative review of pox: smallpox vs monkeypox Jayswal, Samiksha Kakadiya, Jagdish Egypt J Intern Med Review The famed variola (smallpox) virus and the monkeypox virus (MPXV) are closely related, and MPXV causes a milder form of febrile rash disease in people. Human monkeypox was mostly an uncommon zoonotic illness that was restricted to West and Central African wooded areas in the twentieth century. The global population’s smallpox vaccine-induced immunity, however, has started to decrease as the number of cases and the geographic breadth have both increased significantly in this century. Several countries have seen human monkeypox outbreaks since May 2022. A possible shift in the monkeypox transmission pattern that might represent a bigger worldwide danger is raised by the atypical nature of these outbreaks, which are characterized by their high-case numbers and absence of ties to endemic countries. Here, we explore a wide range of MPXV biology topics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022-12-13 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9746567/ /pubmed/36530575 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43162-022-00174-0 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/) .
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