Early detection, assessment and response to acute public health events:
It's time to deliver differently.
Accessed: 13.11.2019
Pre-Publication draft version. Lat reviewed on 7th July 2017
Bulletin of the World Health Organization; http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.16.176677
Copenhagen, Denmark, 24–25 August 2017
Monkeypox is an emerging viral zoonosis with symptoms similar to those observed in smallpox patients, although less severe. Since the global eradication of smallpox in 1980, monkeypox has emerged as the most important orthopoxvirus in humans. The Advisory Committee on Variola Virus Research (ACVVR) ...which meets annually to oversee smallpox research has highlighted the importance of diagnostics that could distinguish between variola and other strains of orthopoxviruses, including monkeypox virus. The ACVVR encourages the positive effects of current smallpox research on all orthopoxviruses, specifically monkeypox, such as the development of diagnostic tools.
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A global Pandemic, Preparedness and Response (RRR) architecture