The Monkeypox

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  • Sittichai Tantipasawasin Chonburi hospital

Abstract

Even today, medicine has advanced very far. Humanity has knowledge of infectious diseases. There is modern technology to produce vaccines for prevention  , but in the last few years, we have still encountered an outbreak of emerging diseases. "COVID-19" that has infected people around the world. 603,791,000 people 6,494,000  people died worldwide. In Thailand, 4,650,000  people have been infected. 32,328  people have died and there have been repeated outbreaks caused by the mutated COVID-2019  variant. On the contrary, a new wave of outbreaks is likely. At the same time, we have seen a new wave of monkeypox  that has spread in many countries, including Thailand, and the World Health Organization must closely monitor and assess the outbreak situation. Two months after the outbreak of monkeypox, there have been 51,749  cumulative cases of monkeypox worldwide in 93 countries. The first case of monkeypox has been reported in Thailand. The 66th country was a 27-year-old Nigerian male tourist who had arrived in Phuket before showing symptoms. A.2 subvariant   until August 31, 2022  The total number of monkeypox cases in Thailand has increased. 6  people, 3 Thais  and 3 foreigners  Let's get to know more about monkeypox.

Author Biography

Sittichai Tantipasawasin, Chonburi hospital

chairman of oral and maxillofacial surgery department

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Published

2022-08-31 — Updated on 2023-07-19

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