EPIDEMIOLOGY: Monkeypox affects all age groups; however, children under age of 16 have constituted the greatest proportion of cases(9).

Human monkeypox (MPX) is a zoonotic viral disease caused by the Monkeypox virus (MPXV).

EPIDEMIOLOGY: Monkeypox affects all age groups; however, children under age of 16 have constituted the greatest proportion of cases(9).

​In Sankuru, DRC, a SALT team wants to encourage communities in the remote tropical forest to manage the health crisis caused by Monkeypox.

Lymphadenopathy is thus considered a key distinguishing feature of monkeypox(5,9,10).

A monkeypox patient in the Democratic Republic of the Congo during an outbreak in 1997.

These are the first cases of monkeypox in humans reported in the European Union (EU).

The history of monkeypox is new (1958), and medical professionals diagnosed the first human monkeypox cases and differentiated them from smallpox in the early 1970s.

Its history is relatively new, having been diagnosed in 1958, but the first human cases were diagnosed and differentiated from smallpox in the early 1970s.

Research is ongoing to study antivirals, genetics, and rapid tests for monkeypox.

[This is not the 1st time that a human monkeypox (MPX) virus infection has been imported into another country from Nigeria.

This is not the first time a case of monkeypox will be exported to other countries from Nigeria.

Imports have been banned since 2003, when they were blamed for a monkeypox outbreak that sickened 100 people in the United States.

In September 2018, 2 unrelated cases of monkeypox were reported in the United Kingdom in travellers arriving from Nigeria.

In general, the prognosis for monkeypox is good to excellent as most patients recover.