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MPOX – Questions and answers [https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/monkeypox/]
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Mpox is an illness caused by the monkeypox virus. It is a viral infection which can spread between people, mainly through close contact, and occasionally from the environment to people via things and surfaces that have been touched by a person with mpox. In settings where the monkeypox virus is present among some wild animals, it can also be transmitted from infected animals to people who have contact with them.
Following a series of consultations with global experts, WHO has begun using a new preferred term “mpox” as a synonym for monkeypox. Read more on the background to this decision here [https://www.who.int/news/item/28-11-2022-who-recommends-new-name-for-monkeypox-disease].
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