Unprecedented rise of monkeypox in Europe and America: Are Asian countries ready for a new outbreak during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic?

J Glob Health. 2022 Aug 31:12:03066. doi: 10.7189/jogh.12.03066.

Authors

Sakirul Khan¹, Sheikh Mohammad Fazle Akbar², Takaaki Yahiro^{1

3}, Mamun Al Mahtab⁴, Kazunori Kimitsuki¹, Akira Nishizono^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Oita, Japan.
² Department of Gastroenterology and Metabology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Ehime, Japan.
³ Research Center for Global and Local Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Oita, Japan.
⁴ Division of Interventional Hepatology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Disease Outbreaks
Europe / epidemiology
Humans
Mpox (monkeypox)* / epidemiology
Pandemics