A REVIEW ARTICLE ON MONKEYPOX

Muhammad Zaman Khetran, Rahman Gul*, Ghulam Farooq, Safia Mengal, Imran Lashari, Kashmala Khan, Falsafa Jamal and Nighat Saleh

ABSTRACT

Monkey pox outbreak in 2022 brought innovative public health danger from the summit of continuing corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in the entire countries of world. Monkey pox disease spread whole six continents of the world including 104 Countries by means of maximum encumber in (North America) and Europe. Since 1959 isolated infected monkeys and its etiological agent identified virulence between humans reported ever-since 1970s typically in endemic countries of Central and West Africa. Therefore disease re-emerged in 2022 at surprising tempo in ‘’(human to human)’’ transmission capability and community spread in non endemic region. The entire world needs to mitigate-effort from health care workers, public health workers and policy makers should update the communities regarding the neglected viral diseases. The responsibilities of health care providers should update the communities about the monkey pox overview such as etiology, epidemiology, clinical features, pathogenesis, diagnosis and management. Therefore world declared ‘’public health emergency of international concern’’ (PHEIC) to discuss or apply preventive control measures and latest vaccines development to handle the re-emerging viral disease. This literature review provides a general knowledge to the whole world communities regarding the current outbreak.

Keywords: Public health, PHEIC, Prevention, Emergency, Pandemic, Epidemic, Endemic, Vaccination.