Smallpox News
This segment of DNA brings you information related to today's history.
A 31-year-old guy with no history of overseas travel was diagnosed with monkeypox in Delhi on July 24. The previous three cases of monkeypox in India were reported from Kerala.
German panel has recommended vaccines for patients afflicted with monkeypox.
Many non-endemic countries have reported monkeypox virus cases this year.
The Union health ministry has directed airport and port health officers to be vigilant.
Cases of Monkeypox have been reported from the UK, the USA, Portugal, Spain, and some other European countries.
Monkeypox puts virologists on the alert because it is in the smallpox family, although it causes less serious illness
This virus does not spread easily among people but transmission can occur through contact with the body fluids
Suspected cases may present with early flu-like symptoms and progress to lesions
The candidate vaccine, known as DNA-rTV, relies on replication of the virus' DNA to stimulate "effective immunization" against the virus.
Till now, it was thought to have appeared in human population thousands of years ago in ancient India, China and Egypt but this study has furnished a fact that is otherwise.
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