Mpox strikes once more in 2024: Declared again as a public health emergency of international concern

• Ranjit Sah,
• Vasso Apostolopoulos,
• Rachana Mehta,
• Ranjana Rohilla,
• Sanjit Sah,
• Aroop Mohanty,
• Vini Mehta,
• Jack Feehan,
• Camila Luna,
• Francisco Javier Membrillo de Novales,
• Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq,
• Antonio Cascio,
• Ana Johanna Samayoa-Bran,
• D. Katterine Bonilla-Aldana,
• Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales

Affiliations

Ranjit Sah

SR Sanjeevani Hospital, Kalyanpur-10, Siraha, Nepal

Vasso Apostolopoulos

School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia

Rachana Mehta

Dr. Lal Path Labs Nepal, Chandol, Kathmandu, Nepal; Clinical Microbiology, RDC, Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies, Faridabad, Haryana, 121004, India; Medical Laboratories Techniques Department, AL-Mustaqbal University, 51001, Hillah, Babil, Iraq

Ranjana Rohilla

Department of Microbiology, Shri Guru Ram Rai Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Dehradun, India

Sanjit Sah

Department of Pediatrics, Dr. D.Y. Patil Medical College Hospital and Research Center, Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, 411018, Maharashtra, India; Department of Public Health Dentistry, Dr. D. Y. Patil Dental College and Hospital, Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, 411018, India

Aroop Mohanty

Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Gorakhpur (AIIMS), Uttar Pradesh, 273008, India

Vini Mehta

Department of Public Health Dentistry, Dr. D. Y. Patil Dental College and Hospital, Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, 411018, India

Jack Feehan

School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia

Camila Luna

Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru

Francisco Javier Membrillo de Novales

Hospital Central de la Defensa “Gómez Ulla”, CBRN and Infectious Diseases Department, Glorieta del Ejército, S/N, 28047, Madrid, Spain

Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq

Specialty Internal Medicine and Quality Department, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Infectious Disease Division, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana, USA; Infectious Disease Division, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Antonio Cascio

Department of Health Promotion Sciences, Maternal and Infant Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, University of Palermo, 90127, Palermo, Italy; Department of Infectious Diseases, A.O.U.P. Palermo, 90127, Palermo, Italy

Ana Johanna Samayoa-Bran

Comprehensive Care Unit for HIV and Chronic Infections “Dr. Carlos Rodolfo Mejía Villatoro”, Roosevelt Hospital, Guatemala city, Guatemala

D. Katterine Bonilla-Aldana

College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales

Corresponding author.; Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru; Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas-Institución Universitaria Visión de las Américas, Pereira, Colombia; Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon