• A review of national preparedness against monkeypox virus
  • esmayil zamanpour bishak,1,* ali ahmadabadi asl alamdari,2
    1. Professional Bachelor of Rescue Operations Management, Applied Scientific University of Bonab Municipality, bonab, iran
    2. emergency medical service, qazvin medical science university, qazvin, iran


  • Introduction: Introduction and Objective: Monkeypox virus (mpxv) was first isolated and identified in 1958, when monkeys shipped from Singapore to a Danish research facility became ill, however, the first confirmed human case in It was in 1970 that the virus was isolated from a child in the Democratic Republic of Congo who was suspected of having smallpox. The purpose of this study is to examine the country's readiness against this epidemic as soon as possible and to reduce the social, economic and life effects of this virus.
  • Methods: Materials and methods: The present study is a systematic review that was searched using the keywords mpxv, smallpox, epidemic in PubMed, Google Scholar, Elsevier and the desired articles.
  • Results: Findings: In the last two decades, Central Africa has seen an increase in the frequency of cases. MPXV may have emerged to occupy the ecological and immunological space vacated by smallpox virus. Countries should establish surveillance systems to detect emerging infectious diseases globally
  • Conclusion: Results: Considering that the disease caused by mpxv has no known clinical treatment, it is necessary to prepare the country's researchers to find clinical treatments, to make people aware of the dangers of this disease, to ensure the country's treatment infrastructure. To deal with it, he considered quarantine places and used smallpox vaccine and studied about it.
  • Keywords: mpxv, smallpox, epidemic , monkey pox