Monkeypox. A brief update

Abstract

Monkeypox (SV) is a zoonotic disease that has been confined to Africa for decades. Human cases and small outbreaks have been reported recently. Although most cases have a favorable evolution, it has caused concern because the Monkeypoxvirus belongs to the same family as the human smallpox virus (VH),and both have similar skin lesions.
While cases of VS in people outside of Africa related to international travel or imported animals have occurred in the past, in the United States, Israel, Singapore, and the United Kingdom; the recent emergence in Europe and America, including our country, has caused a health alarm, bringing up concern in the community. Scientists are in search of answers.
The similarity of the VS virus (Monkeypoxvirus) with that of the VH (Variolavirus), generates a logical consternation at the global public health level due to the possibility that smallpox re-emerges as a faresome disease, taking into account that young people from the world’s population have not received the smallpox vaccine.The objective of this update is to disseminate the characteristics of the VS virus and the disease it produces, as well as a brief review of the history of smallpox vaccination.