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This study aims to assess the awareness and knowledge of the general adult population about Monkeypox disease.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Subjects and Methods:<\/jats:title>\n An online population-based cross-sectional study was carried out in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, among a snowball sample of adult persons (>18 years old). A self-administered online Arabic and English questionnaires was utilized in this study. It consists of three main parts: sociodemographic characteristics of the patients, perception towards Monkeypox disease and assessment of the knowledge about Monkeypox disease through 23 multiple-choice questions with \u201cYes\u201d, \u201cNo\u201d and \u201cdon\u2019t know\u201d responses.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results:<\/jats:title>\n \n A total of 387 adults were included in the study. Females represented 72.6% of them. Almost two-thirds (63.8%) aged between 26 and 45 years. More than half (55.6%) of the participants believed that monkeypox will affect social and economic life like the COVID-19 pandemic while 30.7% considered Monkeypox as a conspiracy or bioterrorism. Overall, almost half (50.4%) of the participants expressed excellent level of knowledge, whereas only 4.4% had poor level of knowledge. The highest level of excellent knowledge about Monkeypox disease was observed among participants in the age group 26\u201345 years (55.1%), whereas the lowest was observed among those in the age group 46\u201360 years (39.7%),\n P<\/jats:italic>\n = 0.001. More educated participants (university\/postgraduates) were more knowledgeable about Monkeypox disease as 53.5% of them had excellent level of knowledge compared to 33.3% of those below secondary school educational level,\n P<\/jats:italic>\n = 0.047.\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusion:<\/jats:title>\n The knowledge of the general population about Monkeypox is acceptable. However, defective knowledge was observed regarding the fact that Monkeypox is not a new infection that appeared in the year 2022 as well as about the availability of a monkeypox vaccine in Saudi Arabia. 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