The monkeypox virus is an orthopoxvirus that causes mpox (monkeypox), a disease with symptoms similar to smallpox, although less severe.
Key facts
Vaccines used during the smallpox eradication programme also provided protection against monkeypox. Newer vaccines have been developed of which one has been approved for prevention of monkeypox
Monkeypox is caused by monkeypox virus, a member of the Orthopoxvirus genus in the family Poxviridae.
Monkeypox is usually a self-limited disease with the symptoms lasting from 2 to 4 weeks. Severe cases can occur. In recent times, the
case fatality ratio has been around
3–6%.
Monkeypox is transmitted to
humans through close contact with an infected
person or
animal, or with material contaminated with the virus.
Monkeypox virus is transmitted from one
person to another by close contact with lesions, body fluids, respiratory droplets and contaminated materials such as bedding.
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.
An antiviral agent developed for the treatment of smallpox has also been licensed for the treatment of monkeypox.
At this
time, data suggest that
gay,
bisexual, and other men who have sex with men make up the majority of cases in the current mpox outbreak.
Monkey pox
Yet they help the pride parade last year with out a shit givin to your health
It is shocking that we saw a aids 2.0 and the people behind the
pride parades did not want to cancel because they knew that if they did then
pride parades would stop especially the fact that the
2021 was the "you can't cancel
pride" and if it did the following year
it would break the sprit of every crazed 'look at me' queers
while leaving the sanes ones finally be accepted in society
because new flash the parades are pushing people futher in the closet