Beatriz Cabanillas, Giuseppe Murdaca, Amir Guemari, Maria Jose Torres, Ahmet Kursat Azkur, Emel Aksoy, Joana Vitte, Leticia de Las Vecillas, Mattia Giovannini, Ruben Fernández-Santamaria, Riccardo Castagnoli, Andrea Orsi, Rosa Amato, Irene Giberti, Alba Català, Dominika Ambrozej, Bianca Schaub, Gerdien A Tramper-Stranders, Natalija Novak, Kari C Nadeau, Ioana Agache, Mubeccel Akdis, Cezmi A Akdis
The current monkeypox disease (MPX) outbreak constitutes a new threat and challenge for our society. With more than 55,000 confirmed cases in 103 countries, World Health Organization declared the ongoing MPX outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on July 23, 2022. The current MPX outbreak is the largest, most widespread, and most serious since the diagnosis of the first case of MPX in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a country where MPX is an endemic disease. Throughout history, there have only been sporadic and self-limiting outbreaks of MPX outside Africa, with a total of 58 cases described from 2003 to 2021...
March 2023: Allergy