AJMC August 23, 2024
The World Health Organization has declared the second mpox global emergency in 2 years. Here are 5 things to know about mpox and the current outbreak.
The first record of mpox dates back to the late 1950s.1 Its discovery came following 2 outbreaks of a poxlike illness that spread throughout monkey colonies being observed for research purposes. Human infection was first reported in 1970 and occurred in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), cementing mpox as a zoonotic disease, indicating its capabilities of transmitting from animals to humans. Mpox has been found in mammals such as monkeys and small rodents and is thought to originate in parts of West and Central Africa. Up until 2022, mpox...
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