In the backdrop of the almost end of the SARS-CoV-2 virus cause of the Covid-19 disease,
the world witnesses a number of worrying outbreak cases of the Monkeypox disease in non-endemic countries;as much as 12
countries mostly European plus the United States of America.
According the World Health Organization (WHO), these countries combined have 92 confirmed cases
of the Monkeypox disease and 28 suspected, see the table in attached Image 4. See the WHO risk assessment page here:
Other sources, also well informed, like the Nature journal's article on the link below, report more
than 400 confirmed or suspected cases in at least 20 non-African countries, "including Canada, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom — the largest outbreak ever outside of Africa" Nature's article says:
The Monkeypox disease causing virus (MPV or MPXV), see Image 2. and Image 3., is an Orthopoxvirus genus from the family of viruses Poxviridaea and is a double-stranded DNA genome based of the size of around 197-kb, see Image 9.
The Monkeypox viruse is a zoonotic virus which means it can be transmitted from animals to human through close contact.
Historicaly, this MPXV virus in endemic in quite a number of West and Central Africa countries. It was discovered in monkeys in the 1958 and the first human case of monkeypox disease was registered in the 1970.
The
Viruses Database, see Image 1., provides scientific data related to the Monkeypox virus
including its
Genomic sequences,
protein/enzyme sequences,
3D-structures,
Scientific literature (papers + abstracts) and
some available
Drugs against closer viruses like the smallpox virus.
Images 7 to 10 show examples of results from querying the Viruses Database using the keyword: "Monkeypox". Results include the complete genomic sequence of an isolated Monkeypox virus from the Zaire outbreak of 1996-1997. Also shown scientific literature resluts and related details and more.
More information can be found about the Viruses Database in the following articles available from the University of Saida, Algeria:
For more about the Monkeypox virus, see the links:
❇️ Viruses:
A database for the annotation of viruses and data-integration (including SARS-CoV-2). created by the Structural Biology & Bioinformatics Groups, Biology Dept, Faculty of Science, University of Saida, Algeria
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