EARLY WARNING OF MONKEYPOX DISEASE IN INDONESIA

[摘要] Monkeypox is smallpox caused by infectionwith zoonotic orthopoxvirus. Human infectionwas first described in Central Africa in 1970(Guarner et al., 2004; Marennikova et al.,1972). Monkeypox can cause severe clinicaldisease, with abnormal systemic signs andsymptoms (Huhn et al., 2005).The Singapore government report said it hadfound monkeypox in the country. The raredisease is under a 38-year-old Nigerian citizenwho arrived in Singapore on April 28, 2019(Times, 2019).

[关键词] monkeypox virus;human infection;Indonesia