The monkeypox outbreak has caught the attention of health officials worldwide. The world has documented 14,533 cases of monkeypox from 72 different countries and tertiaries, as of July 20.
The World Health Organization, (WHO) Regional Director of South-East Asia Region called the rapidly spreading cases a “matter of concern,” recently.
India recorded its fourth case on Sunday, a 34-year-old Delhi resident, with no travel history, but a party, confirmed with monkeypox. The case mark’s India first human-to-human transmission.
The virus, was said to be extremely unlikely to spread into an uncontrolled global pandemic.
Here is how you can prevent it
The spread of monkeypox is much slower than that of COVID-19. Scientists have been studying it since it was discovered in humans, more than 50 years ago. Monkeypox often spreads by prolonged physical contact or very close skin-to-skin contact.
And its similarities to smallpox mean it can be treated in many of the same ways. Thus the smallpox vaccine is effective against monkeypox.
The typical monkeypox symptom is a rash, which normally starts on the face before moving to the limbs or other areas of the body. This makes monkeypox infected individuals easier to spot and then isolate before the disease spreads.
The first case of monkeypox in a human was discovered in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in a nine-month-old boy, unlike Covid-19, which is a very recent and unknown disease.
Most infections initially were caused by the interaction of humans and animals in rural, rainforest regions of the Congo Basin. Before the 2022 outbreak, rising cases were being reported from Central and West Africa. The first outbreak outside Africa happened in 2003 when the United States saw over 70 cases.
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