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What You Should Know About The New Monkeypox Outbreak
At a time when the world is still recovering from the Corona epi- demic that has spread further than two times, questions are beginning to arise about whether it’s possible for the monkeypox con- tagion, which was recently announced, to turn into a new global epidemic.
Spain and Portugal have recorded more than forty con- firmed or suspect- ed cases of mon- keypox, a rare disease in Europe.
On Tuesday, the World Health Organization, in cooperation with Britain, warned of the number of monkeypox infec- tions that have been discovered in this country since the begin- ning of May, especially in the
gay community.
Monkeypox infec- tion occurs as a result of infection with a contagion of the same name, which is from the same family as common
smallpox.
The complaint spreads most fre- quently in remote areas of Central and West African countries near tropical rain- forests.
There are two strains of this contagion; They’re the Central African strain and the West African strain.
Among the cases that were regis- tered in the United Kingdom, two patients had come to the coun- try from Nigeria, which is likely to be infected with the West African
strain, the infec- tion of which causes mild symptoms in gen- eral.
A case of a health care worker who contracted the virus from a patient was also recorded.
Symptoms of monkeypox include fever, headache, bloat- ing, backache, muscle pangs, and languor.
Once the temper- ature rises, a rash appears begin- ning on the face and also moves to other corridors of the body, but it’s most frequent- ly on the triumphs of the hands and soles of the bases.
The infection goes down with- out medical inter- vention after symptoms last for about 14 to 21 days.
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