mpox
- The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recently announced that it would start using the term “mpox” for monkeypox.
- The naming of viruses is the responsibility of the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV).
- Monkeypox is a viral zoonotic disease that occurs primarily in tropical rainforest areas of central and west Africa and is occasionally exported to other regions.
- Monkeypox virus is an enveloped double-stranded DNA virus that belongs to the Orthopoxvirus genus of the Poxviridae family.
- Human monkeypox was first identified in humans in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the ....
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