Emerging Disease is defined as infections that have recently appeared in a population or whose incidence or geographic range is fast rising or poses a threat to rise in the near future are considered emerging infectious diseases. Emerging infections may result from:

• Unexpected or previously undiscovered infectious pathogens
• Known agents that have reached new populations or geographic areas
• Previously established agents whose involvement in particular diseases has gone overlooked
• The reemergence of agents whose illness incidence had previously dramatically decreased but has since increased. Re-emerging infectious diseases are the name given to this group of illnesses.

Monkeypox

A rare condition known as monkeypox is brought on by infection with the monkeypox virus. The variola virus, which causes smallpox, and the monkeypox virus are both members of the same virus family. Smallpox symptoms are comparable to those of monkey pox, but they are milder, and monkey pox rarely results in death. Monkey pox and chicken pox are unrelated.

Two outbreaks of a disease resembling the pox in colonies of monkeys kept for research led to the discovery of monkeypox in 1958. Despite being called "monkeypox," the disease's origin is still a mystery. However, the virus may be carried by African rodents and non-human primates (such as monkeys) and infect humans.

Diagnosis & Medicine

Given the rarity of monkeypox, a healthcare professional may initially consider other rash infections like measles or chickenpox. However, enlarged lymph nodes typically set monkeypox apart from other poxes.Your healthcare provider collects tissue from an open sore to diagnose monkeypox (lesion). 

Tecovirimat

The CDC has an expanded access New Investigational Drug protocol (often known as "compassionate use") that permits the use of tecovirimat that has been kept on hand to treat monkeypox when an outbreak occurs. You can get tecovirimat as a tablet or an injection.

The World Health Organization declared monkeypox a "evolving danger of moderate public health concern" on June 23, 2022, after more than 3000 monkeypox virus infections were detected in more than 50 nations across five regions since early May 2022.

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