Cases around the world, therefore sped for past few weeks, Severe cases occur more commonly among children
Monkeypox
Key facts
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/monkeypox
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/20/monkeypox-outbreak-doubles-health-authorities-set-announce-11/
Transmission
Contact with an infected animal or human
Respiratory droplets
Lesions
Skin contact
Broken skin
Bodily fluids
Mucous membranes
Contaminated materials, bed linens, clothing, towels
Fomites
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-events/epidemiological-update-monkeypox-outbreak
Mortality is higher among children and young adults, and immunocompromised individuals are especially at risk of severe disease.
Most people recover within weeks.
Most cases presented with lesions on the genitalia or peri-genital area, indicating that transmission likely occurs during close physical contact during sexual activities.
US
President Biden
They haven’t told me the level of exposure yet, but it is something that everybody should be concerned about
We’re working on it hard to figure out what we do and what vaccine may be available
But it is a concern in the sense that if it were to spread it would be consequential
everybody should be concerned about the rise in cases
92 confirmed cases outside Africa in the current outbreak
Massachusetts, Florida, New York City
https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/treatment.html
Currently, there is no proven, safe treatment for monkeypox virus infection.
For purposes of controlling a monkeypox outbreak in the United States, smallpox vaccine, antivirals, and vaccinia immune globulin (VIG) can be used.
Spain
Cases, 30, most linked to,
Enrique Ruiz Escudero, cabinet minister for health
Superspreader event, adult sauna, Madrid
The Public Health Department will carry out an even more detailed analysis…to control contagion, cut the chains of transmission and try to mitigate the transmission of this virus as much as possible
An internationally advertised gay party in Spain, being investigated as the root cause of the global monkeypox cases
UK
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/monkeypox-cases-confirmed-in-england-latest-updates#seven-may
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/monkeypox-cases-confirmed-in-england-latest-updates
Cases, 20
Contact tracing
Quarantine of close contacts
Belgium
3 cases inked to The Darklands Festival, Antwerp
There’s reason to assume that the virus has been brought in by visitors from abroad to the festival after recent cases in other countries (Festival organisers)
Darklands, ticketed event,
various tribes in the gay fetish community come together to create a unique spectacle of fetish brotherhood
Gay pride events
Starts nowish
Dr Hans Kluge, the World Health Organisation Europe
As we enter the summer season in the European region, with mass gatherings, festivals and parties,
I am concerned that transmission could accelerate, as the cases currently being detected are among those engaging in sexual activity,
and the symptoms are unfamiliar to many
Monkeypox is normally a virus that is hard to spread from one person to another, and this is the first time there has been sustained human to human transmission outside Africa.
Bavarian Nordic, Bernard Hoet, (biotechnology company)
an undisclosed European country, order for vaccine doses
The reason why this vaccine was developed was to have a safe vaccine for stockpiling in case of outbreaks of smallpox.
We are in contact with the UK authorities about the use of the vaccine.
Sajid Javid
Procured further doses of vaccine that are effective against monkeypox
NHSE High Consequence Infection Diseases (airborne) Network / WHO
Incubation, 6 to 13 days
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/monkeypox-case-confirmed-in-england-1
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/monkeypox/
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2022-DON381
https://www.who.int/emergencies/outbreak-toolkit/disease-outbreak-toolboxes/monkeypox-outbreak-toolbox
An acute illness with fever more than 38.3⁰C (101⁰F)
Chills
Intense headache
Prodromal lymphadenopathy
Back pain and muscle aches
Myalgia and intense asthenia
Followed one to three days later by a progressively developing rash,
often beginning on the face (most dense),
and then spreading elsewhere on the body,
including soles of feet and palms of hands.
Symptomatic, then rash, 1 to 5 days after first symptoms
The rash changes and goes through different stages before finally forming a scab, which later falls off.
(can look like chickenpox or syphilis)
Starts as raised spots, forming into fluid filled blisters, then scabs which fall off
Lesions can be very itchy or painful
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