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The virus enters the body through broken skin, or mucosal surfaces such as the mouth, respiratory tract, or genitals. [1] Mpox can be transmitted from one person to another through contact with infectious lesion material or fluid on the skin, in the mouth or on the genitals; this includes touching, close contact, and during sex.
Mpox belongs to the same virus family as smallpox, but produces milder symptoms including fever, chills and body aches. Serious cases can lead to lesions on the face, hand, chest and genitals.
Two strains of mpox are now spreading in Congo - the endemic form of the virus, clade I, and a new offshoot called clade Ib, with the term 'clade' referring to a form of the virus.
The mpox virus is endemic (meaning ever-present) there, but infections have surged this year, driven by a deadlier variant of the virus than the one that began spreading in the U.S. in 2022.
Mpox—formerly monkeypox—is a disease caused by the monkeypox virus. ... Is Mpox deadly? ... Mpox can cause a systemic infection—meaning, it spreads all over your body—along with pneumonia ...
Mpox, previously known as monkeypox, is a part of the same virus family that causes smallpox, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is not related to chickenpox .
The monkeypox virus is a zoonotic virus belonging to the genus Orthopoxvirus, which itself is a member of the family Poxviridae (also known as the poxvirus family). [9] Of note, the Orthopoxvirus genus includes the variola virus that prior to eradication via the advent of the smallpox vaccine, was the cause of the infectious human disease known as smallpox. [10]
The virus is transmitted through “prolonged intimate contact with someone who has active lesions,” which are the red, sometimes painful sores that make up an mpox rash, Dr. Boghuma Titanji, a ...