Is monkeypox another reemerging viral zoonosis with many animal hosts yet to be defined?
Abstract
Again, the world is witnessing a disease caused by a member of an old group of viruses that may go into the spillover from animal species to humans (Bezerra-Santos et al. Citation2021). In 2022, the monkeypox virus (MPXV), an Orthopoxvirus (family Poxviridae), is causing a multi-country outbreak in almost all the continents outside Africa, which has been endemic since its discovery in humans in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (León-Figueroa et al. Citation2022)...

