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Step-by-step explanation:
Mpox (or monkeypox) is an illness caused by the monkeypox virus. It is a viral infection that can spread between people and occasionally from the environment to people via things and surfaces that have been touched by a person with m pox. In settings where the monkeypox virus is present among some wild animals, it can also be transmitted from infected animals to people who have contact with them.
Following a series of consultations with global experts, WHO has begun using a new preferred term “m pox” as a synonym for monkeypox. Read more on the background to this decision here.