NEW YORK (AP) — Massachusetts on Wednesday reported a rare case of monkeypox in a man who recently traveled to Canada, and health officials are looking into whether it is connected to small outbreaks in Europe.
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Monkeypox is typically limited to Africa, and rare cases in the U.S. and elsewhere are usually linked to travel there. A small number of confirmed or suspected cases have been reported this month in the United Kingdom, Portugal and Spain.
U.S. health officials said they are in contact with officials in the U.K. and Canada as part of the investigation. The U.S. case poses no risk to the public, and the Massachusetts resident is hospitalized but in good condition, officials said.
The case is the first in the U.S. this year. Last year, Texas and Maryland each reported a case in people who traveled to Nigeria.
Monkeypox typically begins with a flu-like illness and swelling of the lymph nodes, followed by a rash on the face and body. In Africa, people have been infected through bites from rodents or small animals, and it does not usually spread easily among people.
However, investigators in Europe say most of the cases have been in gay or bisexual men, and officials are looking into the possibility that some infections were spread through close contact during sex.
Monkeypox comes from the same family of viruses as smallpox. Most people recover from monkeypox within weeks, but the disease is fatal for up to 1 in 10 people, according to the World Health Organization.
These viruses aren’t monkeying around! Or maybe they are.
Next thing you know, some doctor will recommend eating bananas as a cure to this virus. But you got to learn to peel away the nonsense from the facts.
The ‘monkeypox virus’ was first ‘identified’ in ‘1958 in Copenhagen during an outbreak of vesicular disease among captive primates. It is interesting to consider that the monkeys which this happened to, were being used for ‘polio vaccine research’.
They would like to say that monkeypox virus is the same ‘disease’ as ‘smallpox’, but if they do, then ‘vaccine success’ doesn’t hold true. They are therefore differentiating it (with a different name as they did with polio and several other ‘vaccine helpable’ diseases).
the rasha, Bill Gates, warned about a future epidemic of smallpox in Nov of last year and urged govts to prepare to invest in billions of dollar into research, ie vaccines. This guy is psychotic. Hashem should protect us from this virus but just be aware that there is a cure: Sarracenia purpurea, the pitcher plant. A peer-reviewed study was done in March of 2012 that concluded that it is a remedy for the virus.