Monkey Pox

 

More and more pathogens that are cummunicable from animal to man are emerging,putting humanity at stake  for new epidemics that could utimately catalyze a rapid population reduction.Sars,Nipah,and The Hendra Virus are just a few diseases that surfaced in recent years.

Contagions are a microsopic life form of their own,they thrive off of infections in the same manner animals hunt food,or the way humans shoot deers,for recreation.Pathogens are mans only and most feared predators,HIV the virus that causes AIDS was the first identified in 441 white American men in 1981,but by the year 2002,it invaded every nation,infecting 38 million people,while claiming the lives of 20 million others,as well as an untold amount of Chimpanzees.Now,Monkey pox is raising out of its Kingdom to infect man and other animals.

It has the ability to deceive and elude researchers,leaving scientist perplexed on how its transmitted.In 2007 doctors saved the life of a native of the Democratic Republic of  Congo,formely known as Zaire,when he was discovered on the  brink of death,Monkey pox pustules covered his body from head to toe they were also clustered inside of his orifices,obstructing his ability to swallow.An IV tube in his arm feeds him nutrients and keeps him alive.

 

An outbreak of MPX in the mid-Western part of the United States in 2003 highlights this virus’s capacity to suddenly emerge from its endemic regions in surprising clusters of infection with an atypical clinical presentation.

More and more pathogens that are cummunicable from animal to man are emerging,putting humanity at stake  for new epidemics that could utimately catalyze a rapid population reduction.Sars,Nipah,and The Hendra Virus are just a few diseases that surfaced in recent years.

Contagions are a microscopic life form of their own,they thrive off of infections in the same manner animals hunt food,or the way humans shoot deers,for recreation.Pathogens are mans only and most feared predators,HIV the virus that causes AIDS was the first identified in 441 white American men in 1981,but by the year 2002,it invaded every nation,infecting 38 million people,while claiming the lives of 20 million others,as well as an untold amount of Chimpanzees.Now,Monkey pox is raising out of its Kingdom to infect man and other animals.

It has the ability to deceive and elude researchers,leaving scientist perplexed on how its transmitted.In 2007 doctors saved the life of a native of the Democratic Republic of  Congo,formely known as Zaire,when he was discovered on the  brink of death,Monkey pox pustules covered his body from head to toe they were also clustered inside of his orifices,obstructing his ability to swallow.An IV tube in his arm feeds him nutrients and keeps him alive. An outbreak of MPX in the mid-Western part of the United States in 2003 highlights this virus’s capacity to suddenly emerge from its endemic regions in surprising clusters of infection with an atypical clinical presentation.

There are ongoing work is to explain the epidemiology of monkey pox and other emerging infectious diseases through active disease surveillance in remote regions of central Africa with subsistence hunters and other individuals who live and work at the human-animal interface and are at high risk for cross species disease transmission. These individuals represent an important sentinel population for monitoring viral disease emergence in a region from which numerous emerging infectious diseases(EIDs), including ebola, monkeypox, and marburg have been known to recur.

Collaboration with two Drs. from the Whitehead Institute/MIT and at Stanford University are studying the responses of hospitalized patients with MPX in a rural hospital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo using powerful genomic tools including microarray analysis in order to develop a comprehensive picture of the global gene expression patterns associated with human monkey pox infection.This study is funded by the Keck Foundation.