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“The current upsurge of Mpox in parts of Africa, along with the spread of a new sexually transmissible strain of the monkeypox virus, is an emergency, not only for Africa, but for the entire ...
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.
Mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) is a disease caused by a virus in the same family as the smallpox virus. In the ongoing global outbreak, most cases have been linked to sexual contact between ...
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.
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 ...
Testing of patient swab samples by polymerase chain reaction revealed clade II of monkeypox virus, [1] which is the less deadly of the two known monkeypox virus variants with a case fatality rate of around 1%. [68] The genomic sequence of the virus associated with this outbreak was first published on 19 May by Portuguese researchers. [69]
Mpox reached the U.S. as part of a global outbreak in 2022, resulting in 32,000 known infections and 58 deaths domestically. All those cases have been linked to the less virulent and contagious ...