Natural Health News: Monkey Pox, The Facts

Natural Health News-The sudden appearance of Monkey pox, made a lot of Nigerians victims of unwarranted fear, as many were almost certain that another dangerous epidemic was on loose.

But thanks to the heavens that issues of monkey pox are no longer the captions of our daily tabloids and social media life.

But not everyone is fully aware of what money pox really is and the story behind the disease.

And that gap is what this post is about, to bring before even the most naive, facts on monkey pox that would wash away their ignorance.

Monkeypox facts

Monkeypox is a viral disease that produces pox lesions on the skin and is closely related to smallpox but is not nearly as deadly as smallpox was.
The history of monkeypox is new (1958), and the first human cases were diagnosed and differentiated from smallpox in the early 1970s.

Monkeypox virus causes monkeypox. The majority of cases are transmitted from animals (rodents) to humans by direct contact. Person-to-person transfer, probably by droplets, can occur infrequently.

Risk factors for monkeypox include close association with African animals (usually rodents) that have the disease or caring for a patient who has monkeypox.

During the first few days, symptoms are nonspecific and include fever , nausea , and malaise. After about four to seven days, lesions (pustules, papules develop on the face and trunk that ulcerate, crust over, and begin to clear up after about 14-21 days, and lymph nodes  enlarge. There may be some scarring. Treatment may consist of immediate vaccination with smallpox vaccine because monkeypox is so closely related to smallpox. Treatment with an antiviral drug or human immune globulin has been done.

In general, the prognosis for monkeypox is good to excellent as most patients recover. The prognosis may decrease in immunocompromised patients, and patients with other problems such as malnutrition or lung disease may have a poorer prognosis.

Monkeypox is preventable as long as people avoid direct contact with infected animals and people. Vaccination against smallpox seems to afford about an 85% chance of avoiding the infection. There is no commercially available vaccine specifically for monkeypox.

Research is ongoing to study antivirals, genetics, and rapid tests for monkeypox.
The virus was first identified in the State Serum Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1958 during an investigation into a pox-like disease among monkeys.

Human monkeypox was first identified in humans in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then known as Zaire) in a 9 year old boy in a region where smallpox had been eliminated in 1968.

In the spring of 2003, monkeypox cases were confirmed in the Midwest of the United States of America, marking the first reported occurrence of the disease outside of the African continent.

Monkeypox is air-borne and very infectious.

First appeared on Naturally Healthy World

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