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India’s first confirmed monkeypox case has been reported in a 35-year-old male in Kerala, who reached the State capital three days ago from the UAE.
Monkeypox
- About:
- Monkeypox is a viral zoonotic disease that occurs primarily in tropical rainforest areas of Central and West Africa and is occasionally exported to other regions.
- Monkeypox is caused by monkeypox virus, a member of the Orthopoxvirus genus in the family Poxviridae.
- Symptoms:
- Monkeypox typically has the following symptoms:
- Fever
- Rash and swollen lymph nodes
- Headaches and nausea
- Monkeypox typically has the following symptoms:
- Transmission:
- Monkeypox virus is mostly transmitted to people from wild animals such as rodents and primates, but human-to-human transmission also occurs.
- Monkeypox virus is transmitted from one person to another by contact with lesions, body fluids, respiratory droplets and contaminated materials such as bedding.
- Outbreaks:
- The first case of monkeypox was reported in 1958 in monkeys and in humans in 1970 in the western Africa.
- Nigeria witnessed the biggest outbreak of the disease in 2017.
- Thereafter, the disease has been reported in many countries including the USA, Singapore, UK.
- How is it different from smallpox?
- The main difference between symptoms of smallpox and monkeypox is that the latter causes lymph nodes to swell (lymphadenopathy) while smallpox does not.
Source:TH
