What to know about the monkey pox outbreak
May 24, 2022
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as posted by the channel9Health Expert Dr. Payal Kohli discusses monkeypox which has been around since the 1950s but until now has mostly been found in Africa.
The virus, which is associated with a skin rash is spreading in the US and European countries.
Health officials around the world are keeping watch for more cases because, for the first time, the disease appears to be spreading among people who didn’t travel to Africa. They stress, however, that the risk to the general population is low.
Monkeypox is a virus that originates in wild animals like rodents and primates and occasionally jumps to people. It belongs to the same virus family as smallpox.
Most human cases have been in central and west Africa and outbreaks have been relatively limited.
The illness was first identified by scientists in 1958 when there were two outbreaks of a “pox-like” disease in research monkeys — thus the name monkeypox. The first known human infection was in 1970, in a young boy in a remote part of Congo.
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