[Características epidemiológicas de pacientes con viruela símica y su relación con eventos de hospitalización en Colombia].

Objective: Since the beginning of 2022, there has been an unusual outbreak of monkeypox in non-endemic countries that has alerted the international community. In Colombia, there are no recent studies on the epidemiology of patients in this new epidemic. Therefore, aim of this article was to establish the demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with monkeypox and their relationship with the frequency of hospitalization and other variables of clinical notification.

[Mathematical approach of the SIR epidemiological model for the comprehension of the containment measures against the Covid-19.].

In December 2019, an acute respiratory disease outbreak from zoonotic origin was detected in the city of Wuhan, China. The outbreak's infectious agent was a type of coronavirus never seen. Thenceforth, the Covid-19 disease has rapidly spread to more than 200 countries around the world.