A narrative review of pox: smallpox vs monkeypox
Abstract The famed variola (smallpox) virus and the monkeypox virus (MPXV) are closely related, and MPXV causes a milder form of febrile rash disease in people. Human monkeypox was mostly an uncommon zoonotic illness that was restricted to West and Central African wooded areas in the twentieth centu...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2022-12-01
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| Series: | The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s43162-022-00174-0 |