WHO outlines five preventive measures to stop human-to-human monkeypox transmission

A zoonosis disease, which is transmitted from animals to humans, monkeypox is an orthopoxvirus that causes a disease with symptoms similar, but less severe, to smallpox. According to World Health Organization (WHO), while smallpox was eradicated in 1980, monkeypox continues to occur in countries of Central and West Africa.
Source: The Economic Times - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news