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Latin America: Situation and preparedness facing the multi-country human monkeypox outbreak. Lancet Reg Health Am.

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Oñate J. 06/07/2022

Still without ceasing the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, a new viral threat has now emerged outside its endemic niche in Africa affecting multiple countries and continents. After its appearance in May 2022, a multi-country outbreak of monkeypox disease (MPX) has triggered significant concerns due to its rapid spread and potential for sexual transmission (as suggested by the detection of viral DNA in sexual fluids); this, in addition to the previously known transmission routes described throughout endemic countries of Africa over the last decades or the imported or travelrelated cases reported since 2003

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