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South Africa: On 26 May, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) gave a communiqué on how the virus is transmitted, and the institute stated that the 2022 outbreak is the largest outbreak of mpox outside of endemic regions. In addition, the NICD affirmed that the virus mainly spreads in tropical forest areas in West and Central ...
The disease is caused by the monkeypox virus, a zoonotic virus in the genus Orthopoxvirus. The variola virus , which causes smallpox , is also in this genus. [ 8 ] Human-to-human transmission can occur through direct contact with infected skin or body fluids, including sexual contact. [ 8 ]
The disease is caused by the monkeypox virus, a zoonotic virus in the genus Orthopoxvirus. The variola virus , which causes smallpox , is also in this genus. [ 8 ] Human-to-human transmission can occur through direct contact with infected skin or body fluids, including sexual contact. [ 8 ]
An epidemic of a new variant of clade I mpox (formerly known as monkeypox), called clade 1b, [2] began in Central Africa at least as early as September 2023. [3] [4] As of September 2024, more than 29,000 cases have been reported, with over 800 fatalities (~3% fatality rate), [1] nearly all in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [5]
A zoonosis (/ z oʊ ˈ ɒ n ə s ɪ s, ˌ z oʊ ə ˈ n oʊ s ɪ s / ⓘ; [1] pl.: zoonoses) or zoonotic disease is an infectious disease of humans caused by a pathogen (an infectious agent, such as a bacterium, virus, parasite, or prion) that can jump from a non-human vertebrate to a human.
Zoonotic diseases are complex infections residing in animals and can be transmitted to humans. The emergence of zoonotic diseases usually occurs in three stages. Initially the disease is spread through a series of spillover events between domesticated and wildlife populations living in close quarters. Diseases then spread through series of ...
Of the four disease-causing viruses in the genus Ebolavirus, Ebola virus (or the Zaire Ebola virus) is dangerous and is the virus responsible for the epidemic in Western Africa. [ 236 ] [ 237 ] Since the discovery of the viruses in 1976, Ebola virus disease has been confined to areas in Middle Africa, where it is native.
The disease is caused by the monkeypox virus, a zoonotic virus in the genus Orthopoxvirus. The variola virus , which causes smallpox , is also in this genus. [ 7 ] Human-to-human transmission can occur through direct contact with infected skin or body fluids, including sexual contact. [ 7 ]