An overview of monkey pox disease as a important disease in the world

Document Type : Review Article

Authors

1 Razi Vaccine & Serum Research Institute, Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), P.O. Box 31975-148, Karaj, Iran

2 Poultry Vaccine Production Department, Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension, Karaj, Iran

10.32592/ARI.2024.79.6.1121

Abstract

Monkey pox is a viral disease that has received much attention today due to the spread of re-emerging and emerging diseases, especially epidemic diseases.
Mpox was first identified as a distinct illness in 1958 among laboratory monkeys in Copenhagen, Denmark. The first case of monkeypox infection in humans was reported in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in a boy aged 9 months who was the only member of his family without a smallpox vaccination. Monkeypox virus is a zoonotic virus belonging to the family Poxviridae, subfamily chordopoxvirinae, and genus orthopoxvirus.
The monkey pox is transmitted by touching and direct contact with a surface or a person infected with the virus. Also human-to-human transmission can occur through body fluids of the infected person.
In this review article, all aspects of this disease are discussed, so that after an introduction about the disease, history of the disease, virology, clinical features of the disease and its complications, clinical differential diagnosis with similar diseases, epidemiology of the disease, the prevalance of the disease, animal hosts range, virus transmission, disease diagnosis, prevention and treatment, and finally the risks of the disease in the future (future threats) are discussed.
Based on this, all the aspects of the disease have been reviewed in this article, which can be very beneficial for researchers and especially for the policymakers in the field of health and public health, because by knowing this disease and because of the health importance of the disease and the fact that the disease is a zoonosis disease between humans and animals can be affected to prevent this disease.

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