Este documento presenta información sobre el virus de la viruela del mono. Explica que desde mayo de 2022 se han reportado más de 550 casos confirmados en humanos en 30 países. Detalla los síntomas, diagnóstico, tratamiento, formas de transmisión y prevención. La transmisión entre humanos ocurre principalmente a través del contacto directo con lesiones, fluidos corporales o gotículas respiratorias. La OMS declaró el brote como una emergencia de salud pública de importancia internacional el 23 de julio de 2022.
2. Dr. Juan José Rey
Secretaría de Salud y
Ambiente.
Dr. Orlando Quintero.
Agradecimientos
MAGNIFIED AND COLORIZED MONKEYPOX VIRUS PARTICLES. SINCE EARLY MAY, OVER 550 CONFIRMED CASES OF HUMAN INFECTION WITH MONKEYPOX VIRUS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN 30 COUNTRIES. CREDIT: NIAID
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5. Humanos
• 1970 Congo.
• Endémico en Africa Central y Occidental
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeypox#/media/File:Monkeypox.jpg
6. Humanos
• 15 de mayo 2022. OMS.
• Notificación de casos
Europa. Reino Unido.
Portugal.
• 23 de julio de 2022.
OMS. Emergencia de
salud pública de
importancia
internacional
7. Humanos
• 23 de julio de 2022. OMS. Emergencia de salud pública de importancia internacional
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8. 2009: H1N1 (swine flu) originates in Mexico
and spreads to the United States.
2014: Polio resurges in Afghanistan, Pakistan
and Nigeria.
2014: Ebola virus infections spread
throughout Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
2016: A Zika virus epidemic causes
microcephaly and other neurological
disorders in the Americas.
2019: An Ebola outbreak spreads in a conflict
zone in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo.
2020: The first cases of COVID-19 appear in
China in late 2019, and the SARS-CoV-2
coronavirus spreads to many other countries,
becoming a pandemic.
2022: Monkeypox infections pop up and
spread widely in countries outside Central
and West Africa, where they had been slowly
circulating for 50 years
• 23 de julio de 2022. OMS. Emergencia de salud pública
de importancia internacional
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeypox#/media/File:Monkeypox_By_Country.svg
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02054-7
9. Monkeypox
Viruela símica
• Familia: Poxviridae
• Género: Orhopoxvirus
(DNA doble cadena, virus
desnudo)
• Viruela mayor (VARV -
variola Mayor virus):
Huésped humano
erradicada 1980.
• Viruela símico (MXPV) –
viruela menor
• Viruela vacuna (Cowpox
CPXV)
• Zoonosis, el humano
huésped accidental.
MAGNIFIED AND COLORIZED MONKEYPOX VIRUS PARTICLES. SINCE EARLY MAY
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Mandel. Principles of infectious diseases.
30. Epidemiological, clinical and virological characteristics of four cases of monkeypox support transmission through sexual contact, Italy, May
2022
31. • Epidemiological, clinical
and virological
characteristics of four
cases of monkeypox
support transmission
through sexual contact,
Italy, May 2022
https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.22.2200421