Dallas County’s top health official says the city is ready if monkeypox comes to Texas after the area dealt with its first case almost a year ago. Nearly 260...
This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions and spherical immature virions obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. Monkeypox, a disease that rarely appears outside Africa, has recently been detected more by American health authorities.
“We’ve dealt with it before. We’ve dealt with other things like it before. I think we are certainly well-prepared,” said Dr. Philip Huang, director of the Dallas County health department.Monkeypox is a virus transmitted from animals to humans that causes symptoms similar to the now-eradicated smallpox virus, although monkeypox is less contagious and less severe.
The virus isn’t new. Monkeypox was first discovered in 1958 in colonies of monkeys kept for research, although several different animals can carry the disease, including rodents. The first human case of monkeypox was recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1970, and since then cases have been reported in several Central and West African countries.
Recent cases also have been largely reported in men who have sex with men, although Kulkarni emphasized that people of any sexual orientation could potentially contract the disease. The Food and Drug Administration approved one vaccine, called Jynneos, for the prevention of monkeypox, and it is being evaluated for potential use in people who are at risk of exposure to the virus. Vaccines used to stop smallpox also provide protection against monkeypox, according to WHO.
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