IAMSASHY:
D only change Nigerians hv got, different sickness evry year, APC issa cause

As if buhari asked you to be eating monkey

How many States is monkey pox, presently?

annnikky:

U'll be d first to contact it then u'll be quarantined
Ishi aki

Chai

I jus dey imagine how dis your fine face go dey look when it becomes spotted all over with monkey pox in two day's time

Sorry in advance

NwaChibuzor3:
An investigation has been done and it was discovered that an afonja traveler brought this virus into our land.

ya father

Intelcorei7:

Anuofia !

buhari judge you

From chicken pox to ebola caused by bush meat to lasaa fever caused by rats and now monkey pox..hmm..it seems we hv offended d gods of d animals

I wish her speedy recovery.

FlirtyKaren:
Enugu State has just recorded it's first case of Monkey Pox, according to Nigerian blogger Amanda Chisom who shared photo of a female victim. She further disclosed that the patient is currently undergoing treatment at UNTH.

This is coming after Lagos State recorded first two cases of the viral disease.  

https://www.lailasblog.com/enugu-records-first-case-monkey-pox/

Lailaas blog how do we even believe u wen u haven't been to enugu to confirm weda there's a case of monkey pox.

It's the duty of federal or state health ministries to confirm or announce such.

Stop spreading Rumors to cause unnecessary chaos

pidgintutor:
i dont understand how what causes panic is trending and has graced frontpage for the whole world to become anxious whereas the lalasticlala , seun and the others have turned a blind eye to the thread i created informing nigerians that monkey pox is not deadly and it resolves on its own without treatment

..we love bad news...fact

ritababe:


where did u see the cure? my friend no cure yet

...oga viruses normally dont have cure as in tablets to take and be cured...they control the symptoms and the illness fades with time, thats how its is treated....or you can be vaccinated againat smallpox which is very similar to monkey pox....i dont know why the hype, i think it is because of our reading culture...everything is online for all to research on but we love the rumours we hear from the market women compared to real facts....

Monkey is a virus that is transmitted from animals to humans (zoonosis) with symptoms that appears as those of smallpox, though less severe. Smallpox eradicated in 1980 but Monkeypox can still be seen in some parts of Africa. The virus is a member of the Orthopoxvirus genus that is found in the family Poxviridae.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MONKEY POX

Transmission

The monkeypox virus is transmitted primarily by having direct contact with the blood, body fluids or mucosal lesions of animals that are infected. Infections in Africa has been through the handling of infected monkeys, Gambian giant rats and squirrels and rodents are the major reservoirs for the virus. Another risk area is the eating of meat from affected animals that is not cooked adequately.

Human to human transmission can be by having contact with the respiratory secretions, skin lesions of an infected person or objects that have been infected by the patient’s fluid. It occurs largely due to droplets respiratory particles usually after a prolonged face to face contact. This puts household members with active cases at a greater risk of being infected. Inoculation or the placenta (congenital monkeypox) can also transmit the virus. However, there has not been any single evidence that human to human transmission alone can sustain the infection among in human populations.

A study of prairie dog-human monkeypox model, two different clades of the virus were identified; the Congo Basin and West African clades. The former is more virulent.

Signs and Symptoms

The incubation period for the Monkey Pox virus is from 6 to 16 days but can take up to 5 to 21 days. The incubation period is the interval from infection to when the symptoms start showing. The two period of infections are;

The invasion period and this is between 0-5 days which comes with fever, intense headache, lymphadenopathy (swelling of the lymph node), back pain, myalgia (muscle ache) and intense asthenia (a lack of energy).
The skin eruption period which is between 1-3 days after the fever starts. At this stage, rashes appear from the face and spread to other parts of the body. 95 percent of the cases have the face affected more while 75 percent cases affect the palm and sole of the feet. The change of the flat lesions (macul0papules) to small fluid-filled blisters (vesicles) to pustules to crust occur in approximately 10 days.

The lesions can show from a few to a thousand which affects oral mucous membranes (70 percent of cases), genitals (30 percent) and conjunctivae/eyelid (20 percent) including the cornea (eyeball).

The severe lymphadenopathy (swollen lymph nodes) can appear in some patients before the rashes appear and this is a distinct feature of the monkeypox compared to similar diseases. The virus is self-limited and severe cases are found in children and this depends on the extent of exposure, patient health and complications.

Diagnosis

The different diagnosis that is considered includes rash illnesses such as smallpox, chicken pox, measles, bacterial skin infections, scabies, syphilis and allergies related to medications. Lymphadenopathy in the prodromal stage of it can clinical feature to differentiate from smallpox.

The virus can only diagnosis definitively in the laboratory by running various tests;

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)
Antigen detection tests.
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay.
Virus isolation by cell culture.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MONKEY POX