The World Health Organization (WHO) has called an emergency meeting as monkeypox is confirmed in more countries. According to the World Health Organization, about 80 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed, and another 50 are being investigated in 11 countries. Not in India Now.
1. United States
The first case of monkeypox this year in the US was confirmed on Wednesday by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. The infected man had recently travelled to Canada.
2. Canada
The Public Health Agency of Canada said on Thursday two cases of monkeypox have been detected in the province of Quebec, the first confirmed cases in Canada.
3. United Kingdom
The UK Health Security Agency said on Friday it had detected 11 new cases of monkeypox in England, taking the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 20.
4. Australia
Australia on Friday reported its first monkeypox case in a traveller who recently returned from Britain, while a probable case of infection was identified with testing being carried out to confirm it.
A man in his 30s who arrived in Melbourne on Monday has the virus, Victoria state's health department said, while the probable case was identified in Sydney in a man in his 40s who had recently travelled to Europe.
5. Spain
The total in Spain has now reached 30. Health authorities in Spain reported on Friday 23 new confirmed cases of monkeypox, mainly in the Madrid region where the regional government closed a sauna linked to the majority of infections.
6. France
A first suspected case of the monkeypox virus on French territory has been detected in the Paris/Ile-de-France region, the French Health Ministry said on Thursday, amid signs of the virus' spreading around the world.
7. Israel
A hospital in Israel was treating a man in his 30s who is displaying symptoms consistent with the disease after recently arriving from Western Europe.
8. Germany
Germany has detected its first case of monkeypox, the German armed forces' medical service said on Friday, but the health ministry does not assume a high number of undetected cases beyond the one announced.
9. Belgium
Belgian health experts were due to meet on Friday after the country detected its first two cases of monkeypox, authorities said. The cases were diagnosed in different cities, though Flemish broadcaster VRTNWS said both patients had attended the same party in an undisclosed location.
10. Portugal
Portugal has reported 14 cases of monkeypox and there are around 20 suspected infections. The health authority in Portugal said on Thursday it was worried about the spread of the disease but asked people to stay calm as the transmission risk was low.
11. The Netherlands
A patient with monkeypox was confirmed in the Netherlands for the first time, the government's health agency said on Friday, adding more people may have become infected with the disease.
After Canada, monkey pox was found in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Australia. The recent outbreak of monkeypox, which is common in Africa, has raised concerns in various parts of Europe and the United States.
Cases of monkeypox have been reported in the US, Canada, the UK, Portugal and Spain, among other countries. Spain investigating 8 suspected cases as investigation into outbreak continues. European health authorities are monitoring for #monkeypox after Britain reported its first case on May 7, and found 6 more cases after that.
Portuguese authorities said on Wednesday they had identified five cases of rare monkeypox infection and Spain's health services are testing eight potential cases after Britain put Europe on alert for the virus.
The five Portuguese patients, out of 20 suspected cases, are all stable. They are all men and they all live in the region of Lisbon and the Tagus Valley, the Portuguese health authorities said.
European Health authorities are monitoring any outbreak of the disease since Britain has reported its first case of monkeypox on May 7 and found six more in the country since then. None of the eight suspected cases in Spain has been confirmed yet, the Spanish Health Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
Monkeypox is a rare viral infection similar to human smallpox, though milder, first recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1970s. The number of cases in West Africa has increased in the last decade. 6,000 reported cases in Congo and about 3,000 cases in Nigeria last year, there are still "so many unknowns in terms of the dynamics of transmission."
Britain previously reported three earlier cases of monkeypox, two involving people who lived in the same household and the third someone who had traveled to Nigeria, where the disease occurs frequently in animals.
Symptoms include fever, headaches and skin rashes starting on the face and spreading to the rest of the body. Among people, the disease is spread when there is very close contact with lesions, body fluids, respiratory droplets or contaminated materials, like bedsheets. The virus has typically spread to people from infected animals like rodents, although human-to-human transmission has been known to occur.
Although mild, it bears a striking resemblance to smallpox, an orthopedic virus that was declared extinct worldwide in the 1980s. The disease is mainly found in central and western Africa. The disease was first confirmed in monkeys in 1958. It was first detected in humans in 1970 by a 9-year-old boy in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The disease can be transmitted from animal to human through direct contact with the blood and body fluids of infected animals. Evidence of viral infection has been found in a number of animals, including antelopes, rats, and various species of monkeys. People living in or near the forest are at risk of contracting the disease if they come in contact with infected animals.
The disease is transmitted from person to person through close contact with the respiratory secretions of an infected person. The virus is transmitted from one person to another through close contact with objects, body fluids, respiratory droplets, and bed-like objects.
It is also recommended to monitor those who come in contact with patients as the disease is transmitted through close contact. Health workers, patients' families, and sexual partners are at high risk of contracting the disease.
It is not particularly infectious between people, Spanish health authorities said, and most people infected recover within a few weeks, though severe cases have been reported.
Disease may spread via sexual contact: officials
Four of the cases detected in Britain self-identified as gay, bi-sexual or other men who have sex with men, the U.K. Health Security Agency said, adding evidence suggested there may be a transmission in the community.
The agency in Britain urged men who are gay and bisexual to be aware of any unusual rashes or lesions and to contact a sexual health service without delay.
The Spanish Health Ministry and Portugal's DGS health authority Spanish did not release any information on the sexual orientation of the monkeypox patients or suspected patients. The two countries sent out alerts to health professionals in order to identify more possible cases.
.png)
The opinions posted here do not belong to 🔰www.indiansdaily.com. The author is solely responsible for the opinions.
As per the IT policy of the Central Government, insults against an individual, community, religion or country, defamatory and inflammatory remarks, obscene and vulgar language are punishable offenses. Legal action will be taken for such expressions of opinion.