Recent Outbreak of Monkeypox

Abstract

Monkeypox virus is an orthopox virus that causes a less severe illness with symptoms similar to smallpox. Monkeypox, which is a zoonotic viral disease, is endemic to West and Central Africa. Two different clades are known, namely The West African clade, with a reported mortality rate of 1%, and the Congo Basin clade, also known as the Central African clade, with a reported mortality rate of 10%. The disease was named "monkeypox" because two outbreaks of diseases were first discovered in 1958 when they occurred in a colony of research monkeys. First human exposure to monkeypox was recorded in the year 1970 when extreme measures for eradication of smallpox were being taken. Then again, smallpox was eradicated in 1980, but monkeypox continues to occur in Central and West African countries from time to time