Current Pandemic in the World: Monkeypox from Past to Present

Abstract

Monkeypox is a zoonotic viral infection that was first identified in humans in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The cases seen again in early May 2022 have reached 78.000 as of today. On July 23, 2022, the World Health Organization decided that the monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency. For the early diagnosis and effective treatment of monkeypox, inter-individual transmission routes, disease symptoms, factors affecting the course of the disease, presence of another infection, prognosis, pharmacological agents used in the prophylactic treatment, and their effects, populations at risk, waste disposal protocol should be known. For this reason, our aim is to reveal the sources of transmission of the monkeypox virus from past to present, what are the signs and symptoms in patients after infection, ways of protection from the virus, the mutation status of the virus, and treatment approaches.