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Human Monkeypox without Viral Prodrome or Sexual Exposure, California, USA, 2022

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2022
We report human monkeypox in a man who returned to the United States from the United Kingdom and reported no sexual contact. He had vesicular and pustular skin lesions but no anogenital involvement.
Abraar Karan   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Clinical Features Present, Past & Future Prospective of Monkey Pox: A Orthopoxvirus

open access: yesJournal for Research in Applied Sciences and Biotechnology, 2023
Some issues regarding the potential spread of monkeypox have arisen just as the international world is beginning to recover from the initial alarm that was caused by the probable spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
S. Shukla   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Orthopoxvirus Zoonoses—Do We Still Remember and Are Ready to Fight?

open access: yesPathogens, 2023
The eradication of smallpox was an enormous achievement due to the global vaccination program launched by World Health Organization. The cessation of the vaccination program led to steadily declining herd immunity against smallpox, causing a health ...
M. Gieryńska   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Gene duplication, gene loss, and recombination events with variola virus shaped the complex evolutionary path of historical American horsepox-based smallpox vaccines

open access: yesmBio, 2023
Vaccinia virus is the active component of all modern smallpox vaccines after the mid-20th century, but it is uncertain to what extent cowpox, vaccinia, and horsepox viruses were used to produce vaccines before then.
Aline R. V. Souza   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Imported Monkeypox, Singapore

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2020
In May 2019, we investigated monkeypox in a traveler from Nigeria to Singapore. The public health response included rapid identification of contacts, use of quarantine, and postexposure smallpox vaccination. No secondary cases were identified.
Sarah Ee Fang Yong   +22 more
doaj   +1 more source

Orthopoxvirus Testing Challenges for Persons in Populations at Low Risk or Without Known Epidemiologic Link to Monkeypox — United States, 2022

open access: yesMMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2022
Since May 2022, approximately 20,000 cases of monkeypox have been identified in the United States, part of a global outbreak occurring in approximately 90 countries and currently affecting primarily gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM)
F. Minhaj   +51 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The French Armed Forces Virology Unit: A Chronological Record of Ongoing Research on Orthopoxvirus

open access: yesViruses, 2017
Since the official declaration of smallpox eradication in 1980, the general population vaccination has ceased worldwide. Therefore, people under 40 year old are generally not vaccinated against smallpox and have no cross protection against orthopoxvirus ...
Déborah Delaune   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mapping the Landscape of Health Research Priorities for Effective Pandemic Preparedness in Human Mpox Virus Disease

open access: yesPathogens, 2023
The global re-emergence of monkeypox (Mpox) in non-endemic regions in 2022 has highlighted the critical importance of timely virus detection and robust public health surveillance in assessing outbreaks and their impact.
Sumit Aggarwal   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Viral genomic features predict Orthopoxvirus reservoir hosts

open access: yesbioRxiv, 2023
Orthopoxviruses (OPVs), including the causative agents of smallpox and mpox have led to devastating outbreaks in human populations worldwide. However, the discontinuation of smallpox vaccination, which also provides cross-protection against related OPVs,
Katie K. Tseng   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Epidemiologic and Ecologic Investigations of Monkeypox, Likouala Department, Republic of the Congo, 2017

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2019
Monkeypox, caused by a zoonotic orthopoxvirus, is endemic in Central and West Africa. Monkeypox has been sporadically reported in the Republic of the Congo. During March 22–April 5, 2017, we investigated 43 suspected human monkeypox cases. We interviewed
Reena H. Doshi   +22 more
doaj   +1 more source

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