Rapid review of essential facts on monkeypox
Monkeypox
Key facts
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/monkeypox
Cases around the world, therefore sped for past few weeks
Severe cases occur more commonly among children
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
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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