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Human Monkeypox: A Comprehensive Narrative Review and Analysis of the Public Health Implications

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posted on 2023-08-30, 20:09 authored by Francesco Di Gennaro, Nicola Veronese, Claudia Marotta, Jae Il Shin, Ai Koyanagi, Andrea Silenzi, Mario Antunes, Annalisa Saracino, Davide Fiore Bavaro, Pinar Soysal, Francesco Vladimiro Segala, Laurie T. Butler, Mario Barbagallo, Yvonne A. Barnett, Christopher Parris, Emanuele Nicastri, Damiano Pizzol, Lee Smith
Recently, numerous cases of monkeypox were reported from several non-endemic countries in Europe, North America, and Oceania, suggesting an unusual and alarming public health issue, particularly considering that the disease is not directly related to human or animal travels. Attention is currently being drawn to this phenomenon since more than 70% of the global population is no longer vaccinated against smallpox. Indeed, the smallpox vaccination also confers some indirect degree of protection against other poxviruses, including monkeypox. We performed a narrative review to describe the existing literature with regard to monkeypox using the MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Scopus databases. This review aims to provide updated evidence of findings on the epidemiology, clinical features, diagnosis, management, and prevention of monkeypox, also considering the concurrent zoonotic pandemic caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2.

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  • Yes

Volume

10

Issue number

8

Page range

1633

Publication title

Microorganisms

ISSN

2076-2607

Publisher

MDPI AG

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  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2022-08-11

Legacy creation date

2022-08-11

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

Faculty of Science & Engineering

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