"The next danger" .. All you want to know about monkeypox

Health and Medical

The Daily Mail newspaper reported the monkeypox virus that has infected some people in Singapore and will spread to Southeast Asia and there is concern about the spread of the disease.

No case has been reported so far in Asia outside Singapore, but we need to know about the disease that has plagued other countries, especially in Africa, the researchers said.

Singapore is the fourth country, the first in Asia, where humans are infected with monkeypox virus, and cases were reported in the United States in 2003, Britain and Israel last year.

The disease is highly contagious and has not been treated, but the good news is that in most cases the body can heal itself.

Monkey monkeys

From where the virus came from monkeypox

"Monkeypox" It is a virus that causes redness of the skin and vesicles, which are small bags filled with fluids, which turn into crusts.

The virus first discovered in 1958 a group of monkeys that were the subject of research in Cameroon. Initially, the virus was known only in central and western Africa.

Reports of human cases were reported only in 1970sInitially, a 9-year-old boy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was initially suspected of having smallpox but later proved to have monkeypox.

For 30 years, the disease was confined to Africa. In 2003, the first cases outside of Africa were reported in the United States to people who had contact with prairie dogs, rodents in North America.

Symptoms in infected animals include runny nose, excessive tears, breathing difficulties and swollen lymph nodes accompanied by skin abnormalities.

Go to humans

Humans can also become infected by catching infected African rodents or eating improperly cooked meat containing viruses.

The incubation period for this disease is very long, between five and 21 days. If a person is infected, he can transmit the virus without knowledge to the people surrounding him for three weeks.

The first symptoms are fever, followed by skin abnormalities that first appear in the facial area, other symptoms include respiratory complaints and enlargement of the lymph node, and the disease lasts from two to four weeks.

Could it be fatal?

The mortality rate for monkeypox infection in humans is 1-10% of cases.

The infection of smallpox in adults is usually mild and can be healed, and more severe cases have been found in children, complications can include bacterial infections in the skin, pneumonia until respiratory failure, damage to the lining of the eye, blindness, and sepsis (inflammation of the body All due to infection) and encephalitis.

Prevention of monkeypox

In countries that have never been reported, the most important thing is to prevent the virus from entering. The easiest way to detect the condition is to monitor body temperature. People with high temperature should be monitored and evaluated if they have skin abnormalities or other symptoms.

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