• Etiology
    • Monkeypox virus
    • most closely related to variola virus
    • ์‚ฌ๋žŒ/์›์ˆญ์ด์— ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ฐ์—ผ๋˜๋Š” ์„ธ๊ท ์„ฑ zoonoses : shigella
  • Occurence
    • sporadically(์‚ฐ๋ฐœ์ ) in West & Central Africa
  • Transmission
    • not clearly known
    • transmission cycle์— monkeys, squirrels, porcupines(ํ˜ธ์ €), anteaters(๊ฐœ๋ฏธํ•ฅ๊ธฐ) ํฌํ•จ
    • human to human : rare(4%)
  • Clinical Manifestation
    • fatality rate : 15% (human)
  • Vaccine : vaccinia virus์˜ vaccine์œผ๋กœ orthopoxvirus ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ
  • ์›์ˆญ์ด๋‘์ฐฝ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถˆ๋ €์œผ๋‚˜, ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ โ€œMPOX(์— ํญ์Šค)โ€œ๋กœ ๋ช…์นญ ๋ฐ”๋€œ.