Mpox: a zoonosis that threatens the African continent and the world

This article aims to elucidate Mpox, a zoonosis that threatens the African and World continents, where The World Health Organization must take preventive measures to mitigate the viral advances of Mpox, in the search to deal with any viral disease, it is evident that people are aware of taking measures, prevention campaigns and awareness must be carried out among people, discussion of results, the large number of cases become evident at every moment and reduce cases in children and older adults as well as vulnerable people. The origin of the monkeypox disease, or Mpox as it is known today, was discovered in Europe in laboratory monkeys in 1958, and for the first time in humans in 1970, in a child in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and since then thousands of endemic cases of the disease have been reported in a resurgence of the disease. In much of the zoonosis, its specific origin is also unknown with precision regarding epidemic outbreaks, through vaccination from 1980 onwards its advances were mitigated, where the vaccine generated immunity against the virus, so the spread was generated by international travel and the vaccine was a means to reduce its progression. The current epidemic outbreak, its transmission route is from person to person or by physical contact, is high risk; in infected people outside the African continent, viral transmission is atypical.