An outbreak of the disease, typically limited to Africa, has been expanding in Europe and has now reached Canada and North America.
| The US identified its first case this year of monkeypox virus, adding to a growing number of confirmed and suspected infections in the UK, Portugal and Spain.
“Many of these global reports of monkeypox cases are occurring within sexual networks,” Inger Damon, a poxvirus expert and director of the CDC’s Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, said in a statement. “However, health-care providers should be alert to any rash that has features typical of monkeypox.”The US has antiviral therapies and vaccines available for use against smallpox, a virus that’s closely related to monkeypox.
Monkeypox doesn’t spread easily between people, according to Massachusetts health officials, but it can be transmitted through respiratory droplets, bodily fluids, or contact with infected skin lesions and contaminated materials. Less severe infections may spread undetected.Children are also at a higher risk of contracting the virus, according to the World Health Organisation, and infection during pregnancy can lead to birth complications or congenital monkeypox.
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