The disease runs its course in about 2 to 4 weeks beginning with a fever, headache, muscle aches and swollen lymph nodes. By the third day, at the very least, the individual will begin to develop a rash, which tends to first appear on the face, lesions will develop, crust, and fall off as the disease concludes (CDC). .
Monkeypox is spread to humans through contact with an infected animal, either from its bite or direct contact to its lesions or body fluids. Human to human infection is also possible with prolonged face-to-face contact, transmitted through the respiratory droplets. One human can also pass the virus on to another with contact of body fluids or with contaminated objects such as bed sheets and clothing (CDC). .
As of June 14, this year, there has been, a total reported infected people in the United States of 81 people among the states of Wisconsin, with 34, Illinois, with 19, Indiana, with 26, and Ohio, with 2 (CDC). This is the first outbreak to occur in the United States. Of these 81, 14 have been hospitalized and no deaths have yet been reported from Monkeypox. It is believed that the virus was spread to these people through contact with infected prairie dogs. Scientist have hypothesized that the prairie dog contracted the illness from coming in contact with an infected dormouse, rope squirrel or Gambian giant rat (imported from Africa), which may have been at the same pet shop. .
Currently there is no proven safe treatment of monkeypox however, use of the smallpox vaccine has been reported to reduce the risk of monkeypox. Appropriate treatment should be sought out to replace lost body fluid, and skin care should be received to prevent secondary sepsis (Lewis-Jones). The smallpox vaccine should be taken 14 days after coming into contact with an infected person or animal and while it may not prevent the virus, it can ease the severity of its symptoms. .
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MONKEY POX EPIDEMIC Something that has been common in our news broadcasts over the years, is a rare viral disease known as "monkeypox". ... The symptoms are similar to other pox diseases so therefore a doctor's diagnosis is recommended. ...
Many monkeys also carry humanly fatal diseases. For instance, 80-90% of all macaque monkeys are infected with Herpes-B virus which is harmless to the monkey but lethal to 70% of humans that contract it. In the past few years there have been Monkey Pox outbreaks due to the importation of prarie dogs to different parts of the US. ...
In a current NASA experiment called the Bion project, monkeys are hurtled into space to test for bone-marrow loss and motion sickness (Horvitz 40). ... According to Reitman, primates are capable of transmitting Creutzfeld Jacob; Epstein-Barr; monkey pox; elephantiasis; leukemia; yellow fever; tuberculosis; rubella and rabies; not to mention Ebola and Marburg (Reitman 23). ... When it was tested on monkeys there were no problems, but it killed 61 people before it was pulled off the market. ...
Lobel, A.(1993) Cookies. Deep Blue Sea. Orlando:Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. My first selection was extracted from a "Treasury of Literature" series basal from HBJ. This basal was distributed to Texas schools in 1993 and at that time, balanced literacy was a common term among publishers of readin...
Being as polite and mannerly as he could, he discovered that his parents had died from small pox. ... For example, when Adamo reaches the village, he sees "monkeys, crying like children" and he hears "a voice high and quavering as a bird's - an old woman's voice." ... His mother kept him safe from the small pox by sending him away from the village, and his mother's friend kept him alive by keeping him away from his village. ...