The whole world is slowly recovering from the ruins of Covid outburst, and there’s another virus looming? Monkey Pox? What is this about anyway?
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The whole world is slowly recovering from the ruins of Covid outburst, and there’s another virus looming? Monkey Pox? What is this about anyway?
Monkeypox is a virus transmitted to humans from animals, it can also be transmitted from one person to another through close contact with an infected person. Symptoms include fever, headaches, muscle aches, and skin rash, which tends to be concentrated on the face, palms of hands and soles of feet. Affected persons are contagious from the beginning of symptoms until the skin lesions are fully cured. Monkeypox symptoms resolve in most patients on their own with supportive treatment. However, it is important to reduce the risk of contagion by limiting contact with people who have suspected or confirmed monkeypox. Awareness is being raised across countries to contain and limit spread of the virus.
Monkeypox is just another disease out there. You are exposed to, or have on your skin, a variety of pathogens that can do you harm. The virus mutates slowly, it is not highly infectious, naturally acquired immunity is potent and long lasting, and vaccines are usually cross protective. The risk of immunologic escape is very, very low. And the spread of this virus can be readily stopped by simple, inexpensive classical public health measures. If it were otherwise, we would already have experienced a pandemic of Monkeypox decades ago. Learn about the disease so if your lifestyle might put you at risk of exposure, you will know what to look for.