Spread of MONKEY POX is due to mutational etiology? Monkeypox was first discovered in 1958 when two outbreaks of a pox-like disease occurred in colonies of monkeys kept for research, hence the name ‘monkeypox.’ The first human case of monkeypox was recorded in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo during a period of intensified effort to eliminate smallpox. Since then monkeypox has been reported in humans in other central and western African countries,
then why its being now spreading all over ?
I have just been reading this on Medscape Nurses;
Roche Develops Test Kits to Detect Monkeypox Virus
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/974614?src=mkm_ret_220601_mscpmrk_exclusiveuk_int&uac=112868PY&impID=4291427&faf=1
Dear Sharique Ahmad . See the following useful RG links: Article Monkeypox virus and insights into its immunomodulatory proteins
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01421-8
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(22)00354-1/fulltext
Article Emergence of Monkeypox as the Most Important Orthopoxvirus I...
https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/58/2/260/335791
Kindly see also the following useful RG links: Article The changing epidemiology of human monkeypox—A potential thr...
Article Major increase in human monkeypox incidence 30 years after s...
Article The Detection of Monkeypox in Humans in the Western Hemisphere
Article Human Monkeypox: Current State of Knowledge and Implications...
Also check please the following useful RG links : Article Genomic Variability of Monkeypox Virus among Humans, Democra...
Article Human monkeypox – After 40 years, an unintended consequence ...
Article Reasons for the increase in emerging and re-emerging viral i...
Article Factors affecting the likelihood of monkeypox's emergence an...
Article Smallpox and Biological Warfare: A Disease Revisited
Researchers are racing to find the origin of the monkeypox outbreaks that have now been linked to some 600 confirmed or suspected cases worldwide. They are also investigating whether the virus is spreading differently compared with previous outbreaks, whether it has accrued unusual genetic changes and how to contain it. One obstacle is that the monkeypox genome is enormous relative to those of many other viruses — more than six times larger than that of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, for example — making it harder to analyse...
Monkeypox virus is a double-stranded DNA virus that infects cells and then replicates in their cytoplasm...
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01493-6
Please see the following useful link.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/06/virus-causing-monkeypox-outbreak-has-mutated-spread-easier
WHO (July 23, 2022): The global outbreak of Monkeypox is now a public health emergency of international concern.
DIMIE OGOINA: Monkeypox watchman
This Nigerian scientist’s research helped the rest of the world to combat the virus...
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-022-04185-3/index.html#section-UN8UtB3ha6