Pakistan Journal of Medicine and Dentistry (May 2024)

Monkeypox Virus – A Global Emergency Outbreak

  • Sareema Eman Akhtar,
  • Saad Shakil

DOI
https://doi.org/10.36283/PJMD12-1/014
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1

Abstract

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Dear Editor, World Health Organization (WHO) has recently declared Monkeypox a global health emergency which raises a serious concern after the COVID-19 pandemic. In 1970, a nine-month-old child in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was diagnosed with monkeypox. Since the 1970s, monkeypox has not only been ubiquitous in Africa, but it has also become a severe public health problem as it has spread to several parts of the world.