Intrafamily Transmission of Monkeypox Virus, Central African Republic, 2018

Abstract

Monkeypox is a rare viral zoonotic disease; primary infections are reported from remote forest areas of Central and West Africa. We report an investigation of a monkeypox outbreak in Lobaye, southwest Central African Republic, in October 2018.

Keywords

• Monkeypox virus
• Orthopoxvirus
• Central Africa
• outbreak investigation
• zoonosis
• viruses