Preprint
Monkeypox and ocular implications in humans
Registro en:
FEYE,Yu Ci Ng et al. Monkeypox and ocular implications in humans. The Ocular Surface, n. 27, p. 13–15, 2023.
1542-0124
10.1016/j.jtos.2022.10.005
1937-5913
Autor
Faye, Yu Ci Ng
Yeh, Steven
Smit, Derrick
Oon, Tek Ng
Vasoo, Shawn
Curi, Andre Luiz Land
Agrawal, Rupesh
Resumen
Elsevier has created a Monkeypox Information Center in response to the declared public health emergency of international concern, with free information in English on the monkeypox virus. The Monkeypox Information Center is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website.
Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its monkeypox related research that is available on the Monkeypox Information Center - including this research content - immediately available in publicly funded repositories, with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the Monkeypox Information Center remains active. Monkeypox is a viral zoonotic infection with some characteristics bearing resemblance to smallpox. Monkeypox was first isolated in Denmark in the late 1950s from a colony of laboratory monkeys used for polio virus research, and first identified as a cause of disease in humans in the 1970s in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The current outbreak could be related to the loss of vaccine-derived immunity following the discontinuation of routine smallpox vaccination, which offered previous cross-protection against monkeypox and reduced human-to-human transmission. In 2022, there was a new global outbreak of monkeypox infection, first reported in Europe in May 2022 . It has since spread to more than 50 countries across five regions, with more than 3000 cases of monkeypox infections being reported. On July 23, 2022, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of monkeypox as an international public health emergency.