Human monkeypox: Will its evolutionary genetics lead us to a new pandemic?

La viruela del mono humana: ¿Su genética evolutiva nos llevará a una nueva pandemia?

Human monkeypox is a disease caused by an Orthopoxvirus with signs and symptoms like those of smallpox. The disease is endemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and was diagnosed in 1970; since then, outbreaks have been reported mainly in rural areas of the Congo Basin and West Africa (1). However, in recent years it has spread to other regions of Africa and new cases have emerged in other continents, alerting health systems to a possible health emergency (2).

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