Monkeypox: A potential pandemic at door of Asia

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2022
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Sah, R.
Mohanty, A.
Reda, A.
Lashin, B.I.
Abdelaal, A.
Rath, R.S.
Rodriguez-Morales, A.J.
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Monkeypox is an emerging zoonotic viral disease first detected in the parts of North Africa in the 1970s. It us caused by a monkeypox virus (MPXV) which is a double-stranded DNA virus and is a species of genus Orthopoxvirus of the family Poxviridae. It is very closely related to the variola virus responsible for causing smallpox and also results in a smallpox like disease. Infection by this virus has small rodents as its natural reservoirs and both monkeys and humans are occasional hosts. Since the first human case in Democratic Republic of Congo (DPR) in 1970, the disease has been confined to the African region particularly the West and Central African countries...
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12805/4710
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104509
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