Monkeypox outbreaks during COVID-19 pandemic: are we looking at an independent phenomenon or an overlapping pandemic?

Affiliations

• ¹ Faculty of Medicine, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh, Egypt. ramadan.med_2587@med.kfs.edu.eg.
• ² Research Scholar, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ³ MSc Candidate in Clinical Research, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁴ New York State, Department of Health, Albany, NY, USA.
• ⁵ Medical Research Center, Kateb University, Kabul, Afghanistan.
• ⁶ Department of Neuroradiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
• ⁷ Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences and Department for Continuing Education (EBHC Program), Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
• ⁸ Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal.
• ⁹ Faculty of Medicine, Institución Universitaria Vision de Las Americas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.
• ¹⁰ Latin American network of MOnkeypox VIrus research (LAMOVI), Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.
• ¹¹ Faculty of Medicine, Institución Universitaria Vision de Las Americas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia. alfonso.rodriguez@uam.edu.co.
• ¹² Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de Las Américas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia. alfonso.rodriguez@uam.edu.co.
• ¹³ Master of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Perú. alfonso.rodriguez@uam.edu.co.
• ¹⁴ School of Medicine, Universidad Privada Franz Tamayo (UNIFRANZ), Cochabamba, Bolivia. alfonso.rodriguez@uam.edu.co.
• ¹⁵ UCL Centre for Clinical Microbiology, Division of Infection & Immunity, UCL, London, UK.
• ¹⁶ Department of Infectious Diseases, VM Medicalpark Samsun Hospital, Samsun, Turkey.