Human Monkeypox: An Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Viral Disease
Mahendra Pal, Raj Kumar Singh, Kirubel Paulos Gutama, C. V. Savalia, Rajeshwari Thakur
Abstract
The monkeypox is an emerging and re-emerging zoonosis that causes sporadic human infections in Central and West Africa's forested areas. Monkeypox virus, a member of the Orthopoxvirus family, is the etiological agent of disease. Monkeypox virus was discovered in the laboratory monkeys in 1958 at the State Serum Institute in Copenhagen, and the first human case of monkeypox virus was recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1970. African rodents serve as the reservoir of the monkeypox virus.
Topics & Concepts
MonkeypoxVirologyEmerging infectious diseaseInfectious disease (medical specialty)DiseaseBiologyMedicineOutbreakVacciniaGeneticsGenePathologyRecombinant DNAPoxvirus research and outbreaksBacillus and Francisella bacterial researchBacteriophages and microbial interactions