The outbreak of monkeypox (MPX) in Ghana.

A report from the Minister of Health indicated that the outbreak began from a man who had recently traveled from the United States to Ghana with mild symptoms of MPX disease.[15] The positive cases in Ghana as of 23rd July 2022 had increased to 34 with age ranging from 9 months to 45 years, mostly men. MPX is a zoonotic orthopoxviral infection caused by the monkeypox virus (MPXV) which belongs to the genus I Orthopoxvirus i and family I Poxvirdiae i . During the prime of the 20th century, an infection similar to smallpox arose in humans called monkeypox (MPX). [Extracted from the article]