monkeypox

Examples

• All

• Although active disease surveillance has assessed monkeypox disease prevalence and geographic range, information about virus diversity is lacking.

  Academic text (2014)

• Monkeypox virus is a zoonotic virus endemic to Central Africa.

  Academic text (2014)

• Within about a month, 71 human cases of monkeypox in six Midwestern states had been reported to the CDC; luckily, no one died.

  Academic text (2005)

• (Wildlife health experts and human health workers in central Africa have long associated human monkeypox infections with rodent and squirrel contact.)

  Academic text (2005)

• In 2003, an outbreak of monkeypox in the midwestern United States revealed the propensity for transmission to MPXV-naive populations.

  Academic text (2014)

• Recent reports suggest that human-to-human transmission of the genomic variability of the Monkeypox virus, DRC of MPXV is increasing (20, 21).

  Academic text (2014)

• It was soon discovered that a prairie dog dealer in Wisconsin had let a number of his animals mix with rodents recently imported from Ghana that happened to be carrying the monkeypox virus.

  Academic text (2005)

• From November 2005 through November 2007, a total of 760 cases of human monkeypox in the Sankuru District, DRC, were identified by active disease surveillance and confirmed by quantitative real-time PCR (20).

  Academic text (2014)

• The recent outbreak of monkeypox has raised concerns among health officials about its transmission to humans.

• Symptoms of monkeypox include fever, rash, and skin lesions, similar to those caused by smallpox.

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology