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The Novel Insight into the Emergence of Monkeypox: Old Disease, New Fears?
2022-11-02
Abstract excerpt
Monkeypox virus (MPXV), causing zoonotic diseases in humans, is a member of Orthopoxvirus under Poxviridae family. The virus was first reported in monkeys in 1959 in Denmark and in humans in 1970 in the Congo. Outside Africa, the virus first appeared in the USA in 2003 and since then occurred sporadically. The virus reemerged in 2017 and now spreading globally. African wild rodent mammals are thought to be the res...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ef1066c5-bf38-506f-ad74-51d1db823571
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202211.0052.v1
