WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION_WER Nos. 03/52, 2023 / ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA SANTE_REH Nos 03/52, 2023
Epidemiology of human monkeypox (mpox) – worldwide, 2018–2021
Monkeypox, now also known as mpox, is a zoonotic disease1 caused by a virus: species Monkeypox virus, genus Orthopox- virus (MPXV). The wild mammalian reservoir species is unknown. There are 2 genetic clades of MPXV:2 clade I, in Central Africa, and clade II, in West Africa; only Cameroon reports both clades.3 Human cases have been reported mainly from rural, forested areas in some central and west African countries or related to population migration or travel of infected persons and exposure to imported infected mammals.4 The annual number of cases in Africa has risen since 2014 and has cumu- latively surpassed those in reports from the previous 40 years in most countries...
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