| EcoHealth Alliance is now a leading voice calling for better tracking and data collection to prevent the next SARS or monkeypox outbreak. |
| It turned out he had monkeypox, a virus similar to smallpox, not Ebola. |
| Monkeypox is part of a family of viruses that cause human smallpox, cowpox, and camelpox as well as monkeypox. |
| The 2003 outbreak of monkeypox originated from imported Gambian rats for sale to the public in an Illinois pel shop. |
| The first monkeypox outbreak occurred in the United States in June 2003 when several people were sickened by infected pet prairie dogs. |
| The world has recently seen an emergence or re-emergence of infectious diseases such as smallpox, SARS, West Nile virus, and monkeypox. |
