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Thanks to a global vaccination campaign first made possible by the English physician and scientist Edward Jenner more than years ago, Smallpox is the first and - so far - the only human disease ever to have been eradicated. Molluscum Contagiosum Virus is spread from one person to another via skin contact.

Strangely, it does not naturally infect cattle, but is largely found in sheep and goats. Um novo estudo publicado na revista médica NEJM, neste mês, aponta que 98% dos afetados pela varíola de macaco no surto de são homens gays ou bissexuais, com idade média de 38 anos, sendo o contato sexual o meio provável de transmissão da doença em 95% dos casos.

Today Smallpox is known as much for what it can no longer do. The Smallpox-causing Variola Virus, for example, is highly contagious and spreads in aerosols and droplets in the breath, coughs and sneezes of someone who is infected. O vírus da varíola dos macacos pode afetar qualquer pessoa, independente de orientação ou prática sexual.

O diretor da Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS) aconselhou, nesta quarta-feira (27), que homens que fazem sexo com homens – como gays, bissexuais e trabalhadores do sexo – reduzam, neste momento, o número de parceiros sexuais para diminuir o risco de exposição à varíola dos macacos (monkeypox).

Within a day or so, the rash spreads in little bumps to the skin of the face, and then on to the arms, legs, torso and all over the body, including the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet. The infection is caused by the Variola Virus, which is most often breathed in by its victims.

The Poxviruses are some of the best known and most feared viruses on earth. A few days later, a rash begins to appear on the tongue, mouth and throat in the form of red spots and sores. The Poxviruses is a large family of more than 70 viruses that are all fairly closely related.

Poxviruses are also infamously robust and stable - meaning they are not generally weakened or killed by exposure to normal temperatures and environments. They are generally oval or brick-shaped viruses, between and nanometres long, and have an intricate internal structure, including a double-stranded DNA genome and multiple enzymes and proteins.

The M. Unlike other DNA viruses, members of the Poxvirus Family replicate in the cytoplasm of host cells, rather than in the nucleus. It was — is — a truly horrific disease. It no longer infects, disfigures or kills people in their millions. Unfortunately, however, the Poxvirus family behind the Variola Virus that causes Smallpox has plenty of other menacing members - making this family one of The Viral Most Wanted.

The four Poxvirus family subgroups that are known to pose a risk to human populations are the Orthopoxviruses, the Parapoxviruses, the Molluscipoxviruses and the Yatapoxviruses. While many members of the Poxvirus family infect a range of animals - from cows, sheep deer and buffalo, to camels, monkeys and seals - Variola Virus and Molluscum Contagiosum Virus are specific to humans and only infect people.

Other members of the Poxvirus family, such as the Orf Virus that primarily infects sheep, can get in through the skin via tiny cuts or grazes. The most notorious and deadly suspect within the viral family is Variola, the agent of Smallpox. In the Yatapoxvirus subgroup of the Poxvirus Family, Tanapox is named after the Tana River Basin in Kenya where it was first identified , while Yaba Monkey Tumour Virus is named after the Yaba suburb of the city of Lagos in Nigeria where it was discovered in some captive rhesus monkeys in the late s.

Como as primeiras ocorrências nos países ocidentais foram registradas principalmente entre homossexuais ou bissexuais, as autoridades sanitárias temem o surgimento de comentários homofóbicos que possam atrapalhar na luta contra a doença, como já foi o caso com outros vírus no passado.

Poxviruses are the among largest and most complex known viruses. Typically, it starts with a high fever, muscle aches, headaches and vomiting. In the 20th Century alone, the disease is estimated to have killed between million and million people. It and other notable Poxvirus suspects, including Mpox or Monkeypox, Vaccinia and Cowpox, belong to the Orthopoxvirus subgroup.

Members of this family are divided into a number of subgroups, and they can infect both people and animals. The Yatapoxvirus subgroup has two notable suspects that can infect humans and primates - Tanapox and Yaba Monkey Tumour Virus. Those who died of Smallpox usually did so within one to two weeks.

Poxviruses can spread from person to person without the need for intermediate hosts and by any one of a number of routes. These attributes make them also able to survive for long periods - even several years - on surfaces or in the dried scabs of previous victims.

Human Monkeypox was given its original name in after the virus that causes the disease was first discovered in captive monkeys in But its name was changed in on advice from the World Health Organization, which renamed it Mpox. Especialistas analisam se a maior identificação entre homossexuais e bissexuais também pode estar associada ao cuidado em saúde ampliado entre esse grupo populacional.