Monkeypox

Portuguese health authorities have confirmed five cases of monkeypox in young men, marking an unusual outbreak in Europe of a disease typically limited to ...

The disease belongs to a family of viruses that includes smallpox. Among people, the disease is spread when there is very close contact with lesions, body fluids, respiratory droplets or contaminated materials, like bedsheets. All the Portuguese cases involve men, most of them young, authorities said. Most people recover from monkeypox within weeks. Britain previously reported three earlier cases of monkeypox, two involving people who lived in the same household and the third someone who had traveled to Nigeria, where the disease occurs frequently in animals. Authorities did not say if the men had a history of travel to Africa or any links with recent cases in Britain or elsewhere.

TUESDAY, May 17, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Four men in England have been infected with a “rare and unusual” monkeypox virus. Investigators from the U.K. ...

Public health officials consider the risk to the general population to be low. The third person had previously traveled to Nigeria, one of the countries where the virus is endemic in animals. “We are particularly urging men who are gay or bisexual to be aware of any unusual rashes or lesions and to contact a sexual health service without delay.” Three of the men are in London, and one is in Northeast England. A rash similar to that found in chickenpox and smallpox can form on the face and genitals in more severe cases. In those cases, two of the patients lived in the same household.

There are 13 confirmed cases of monkeypox in Europe, with 23 more cases being tested as potential infections.

A man likely contracted the virus in Nigeria and flew to the U.K. “There’s a lot of travel between the U.K. and the United States and other global areas. Monkeypox was first identified in 1958 after researchers identified two outbreaks of a pox-like disease among the monkeys they were using as test subjects. Prochazka says this points to the disease being “spread in sexual networks.” The U.K. announced on Monday that they have detected four more cases of monkeypox, bringing the country’s total up to seven cases. While there is no cure for the virus, most people recover from a monkeypox infection within a few weeks. In Portugal, five cases of monkeypox have been found, with 15 more people being tested. The first time that human monkeypox was reported outside of Africa was during a 2003 outbreak in the U.S. Forty-seven people contracted or were suspected to have contracted monkeypox after contact with infected prairie dogs. Jennifer McQuiston, a senior CDC official, said that the department is considering issuing a health alert to medical professionals and clinics in the U.S. The first case of monkeypox to emerge in Europe during this most recent outbreak occurred in the U.K. on May 4. The first human case of monkeypox didn’t come until 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to the CDC. Cases of monkeypox are emerging in the U.K., Spain and Portugal, raising concerns about further transmission of the monkeypox virus.

WHO warns monkeypox virus spreading in sexual networks, know causes and symptoms - Experts believe monkeypox is likely to be a sexually transmissible virus, ...

Experts believe monkeypox is likely to be a sexually transmissible virus, however, studies are underway to understand how much it is circulating and the possible risk factors. This suggests sex being a driver of transmission. There is no cure for monkeypox as of now and the mortality rate is thought to be around 10%.

Monkeypox is a viral infection associated with travel to West Africa which usually causes a mild illness.

Common contacts have been identified for two of the four latest cases. The NHS has said it can be can be caught from infected wild animals in parts of west and central Africa as well as from touching clothing, bedding or towels used by someone with the monkeypox rash, coughs or sneezes and touching monkeypox skin blisters or scabs. Four more people have been diagnosed with monkeypox in the UK, with three of the new cases in London and one in the North East of England.

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According to the report, these deficits would be a result of federal revenue and mandatory spending policies, including having the federal government pay for health care instead of employers. However, among the 6 other cases and the probable case, 3 of them are a family unit and 4 are men who have sex with men, making 2 distinct groups with no connection to each other. Senators Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, and Patty Murray, D-Washington, of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee released a draft of the FDA Safety and Landmark Advancements (FDASLA) Act yesterday.

Health officials across Europe are racing to determine whether the rare viral infection is spreading along sexual routes.

A spokesperson for Madrid’s regional health department said: “Generally speaking, monkeypox is spread by respiratory transmission, but the characteristics of the eight suspected cases point towards fluid contact. Monkeypox can be spread from an animal bite or scratch, body fluids, contaminated objects, or close contact with an infected person. Initial symptoms of monkeypox include fever, headache, muscle aches, backache, swollen lymph nodes, chills and exhaustion.

Four additional cases of monkeypox were detected in the UK among men who have sex with men leading to concerns about the virus spreading in the community.

Overall there have been seven confirmed monkeypox cases in the UK between 6 and 15 May. Initial symptoms of monkeypox include fever, headache, muscle aches, backache, swollen lymph nodes, chills and exhaustion. “This is rare and unusual.

Four new cases of monkeypox have been reported in the UK, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to seven. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is ...

It may be that in a post-pandemic environment, we should give more consideration to understanding the local and global implications of Lassa, monkeypox, Ebola and other rare but serious pathogens. There is no evidence that it is a sexually transmitted infection in the manner of HIV or chlamydia. This may be the first time transmission of monkeypox via sexual contact or intimate activity has been documented. A UKHSA epidemiologist tweeted that this is “highly suggestive of spread in sexual networks”. The cases in Spain may also fall under similar consideration. However, scientists aren’t sure if monkeys are the main animal reservoirs (carriers of the virus), so the name may be a bit of a misnomer. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is urgently looking for the source of the outbreak.

Portuguese authorities said on Wednesday they had identified five cases of rare monkeypox infection and Spain's health services are testing eight potential ...

Monkeypox is a rare viral infection similar to human smallpox, though milder, first recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1970s. read more The five Portuguese patients, out of 20 suspected cases, are all stable.

Some of the monkeypox cases have been detected in men who have sex with men, which raises the possibility that there may be more spread.

Cases outside of Africa have been rare, though there was a large outbreak in the United States in 2003 that involved 47 confirmed and probable cases in six states. “I think that we are concerned about the number of exported cases in travelers we’ve seen. However, in the past few years there has been small increases in exported monkeypox cases. Many conditions can cause rashes but the monkeypox rash has some unusual features, notably the fact that vesicles can form on the palms of the hands. “We’re seeing a shift in the age distribution of cases. Spain’s ministry of health reported that the eight suspected cases there had been detected by a sexual health clinic in Madrid, according to news reports. And I think there’s a lot of travel between the U.K. and the United States and other global areas,” she said in an interview. The symptoms of monkeypox are similar to but milder than smallpox. We have a sense that there might be some unusual methods of transmission, through intimate contact or some form of close personal contact that we’ve not previously associated with monkeypox. It is not currently clear if the outbreaks are linked to each other or to the one in the U.K., where seven confirmed and one probable case have been reported. And given how much travel there is between the United States and Europe, I am very confident we’re going to see cases in the United States. Nor is it known how long the virus has been spreading in these countries.

Seven people have been diagnosed with the virus in the UK, with nearly all of those based in London. Prof Kevin Fenton said health experts were watching the ...

we haven't found any travel links as of yet, which could suggest that they may have picked up the infection in some contact here. But he added: "If we see more cases and it continues to spread then there are plans in place to ensure we have more antiviral agents in place to deal with that. Two days before, the health body revealed four cases of the virus had been detected in addition to three others previously found, with all of those people appearing to have been infected in London.

Portuguese health authorities have confirmed five cases of monkeypox in young men, marking an unusual outbreak in Europe of a disease typically limited to ...

Sporadic cases of monkeypox have been seen previously in countries including Britain and the U.S., but nearly all have been in people who were likely infected during their travels in Africa. The disease belongs to a family of viruses that includes smallpox. Health authorities in Spain’s central Madrid region said late on Wednesday that they were assessing 23 possible cases of monkeypox. All the Portuguese cases involve men, most of them young, authorities said. Earlier this week the U.K. agency reported four cases of monkeypox they said had been spread among gay and bisexual men in London. The agency said the risk to the general population “remains low.” British health authorities said Wednesday they had identified two new cases of monkeypox, one in London and another in southeast England. They said neither case had previously traveled to Africa and that it was possible they were infected in the U.K. The cases had no known links to other previously confirmed patients, suggesting there may be multiple chains of monkeypox transmission already happening in the country.

Portuguese authorities said on Wednesday they had identified five cases of rare monkeypox infection and Spain's health services are testing eight potential ...

Monkeypox is a rare viral infection similar to human smallpox, though milder, first recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1970s. The five Portuguese patients, out of 20 suspected cases, are all stable. The agency in Britain urged men who are gay and bisexual to be aware of any unusual rashes or lesions and to contact a sexual health service without delay. None of the eight suspected cases in Spain has been confirmed yet, the Spanish Health Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. They are all men and they all live in the region of Lisbon and the Tagus Valley, the Portuguese health authorities said. European Health authorities are monitoring any outbreak of the disease since Britain has reported its first case of monkeypox on May 7 and found six more in the country since then.

It brings the total number of confirmed cases in the country since 6 May to nine. One of the latest viral infections was detected in London, while the other ...

It brings the total number of confirmed cases in the country since 6 May to nine. One of the latest viral infections was identified in London, while the other was in the South East. It brings the total number of confirmed cases in the country since 6 May to nine.

The cases point to possible sexual transmission of this cousin of smallpox — a previously unknown method of spread for monkeypox.

"And when you do have a outbreak, it's likely to be bigger because less people in the community are protected." And of course, many scientists didn't think SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19, would mutate to become more contagious, but that's exactly what has happened in the past two years. Then in the 1970s, the world was close to eradicating smallpox. "You have primary cases, in which people get monkeypox from an animal, and they may transmit the disease a few generations — but then that's it," she says. And no one spread the disease to another person. In many cases, people don't spread the virus to anyone else. Forty-seven people caught the disease from the prairie dogs. Scientists don't know yet if the rate of transmission has increased in this current outbreak. "This is a novel route of transmission that will have implications for outbreak response and control." There's a monkeypox outbreak in the United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain and other European countries. In 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first vaccine for monkeypox, which also protects against smallpox. The version currently in England is milder.

Infectious disease was first recorded in 1970 but a recent surge in cases has led to the largest outbreak in Europe to date.

But two other clusters of cases have emerged in the UK since, with no link established with that first case. But there have been warnings that countries outside Africa have become too complacent about the virus due to its rarity. When the virus appears outside Africa, it is because someone travelled to an endemic region, became infected, and returned home. And monkeypox is not like Covid, with a high transmission rate.” There are two strains of monkeypox; a Central African strain with a fatality rate of 10.6%, and a West African strain with a much lower mortality rate of between 1-to-3.6%. The latter is the strain identified in the UK. It seems it is mostly spread to humans through interaction with infected animals.

Scientists are trying to answer questions about the outbreak of a disease not known to spread easily between humans.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is collaborating with Massachusetts health officials on an investigation into a case of monkeypox, ...

The Massachusetts case is the first case reported this year. A second US case was identified later that year, also involving a traveler from Nigeria. It is usually contracted from a rodent or small mammal, and it does not easily spread from one person to another. Symptoms may include a flu-like illness, lymph-node swelling and a rash on the face and body. What we have seen in the United Kingdom, in Spain and in Europe, has been novel and that gives us cause for concern, but, I think appropriately, people should not be afraid of monkeypox right now." However, healthcare providers should be alert to any rash that has features typical of monkeypox.

MONTREAL: Health authorities in North America and Europe have detected dozens of suspected or confirmed cases of monkeypox since early May, sparking concern ...

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A man in Massachusetts marks the first U.S. case of monkeypox identified this year. Officials in the U.K., Spain and Portugal are also investigating new ...

Monkeypox has been infecting people since 1970, and most of the cases have been concentrated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nigeria. The virus belongs to the family of poxviruses, which also includes smallpox. In Africa, around 1 in 10 people who contract monkeypox die, according to the CDC. Because of its symptoms, monkeypox can sometimes get confused with chickenpox, syphilis or herpes. Patients often develop a rash within one to three days of the fever — usually on their face first, then on other parts of the body, including genitalia. The first of those, reported May 7, was a man who had recently traveled to Nigeria. Portugal, meanwhile, has confirmed five new monkeypox cases and is investigating more than 20 total. Monkeypox is not easily passed from person to person, but there are several ways it can spread.

But health officials have little clue where people caught the monkeypox virus. And there's concern the virus may be spreading through the community — undetected ...

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Here's what scientists know so far. "HIGHLY UNUSUAL". Monkeypox is a virus that causes fever symptoms as well as a distinctive bumpy rash. It is usually mild, ...

Smallpox was eradicated by vaccination in 1980, and the shot has been phased out. Only the first case reported on May 6 had recently travelled to Nigeria. It is usually mild, although there are two main strains: The Congo strain, which is more severe – with up to 10 per cent mortality – and the West African strain, which has a fatality rate of about 1 per cent of cases.

On Wednesday, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said another two cases had been identified in England - one in London and the other in the South East - with ...

we haven't found any travel links as of yet, which could suggest that they may have picked up the infection in some contact here. But he added: "If we see more cases and it continues to spread then there are plans in place to ensure we have more antiviral agents in place to deal with that. Two days before, the health body revealed four cases of the virus had been detected in addition to three others previously found, with all of those people appearing to have been infected in London.

The monkeypox virus causes fever and a bumpy rash and is usually transmitted to people from wild animals.

WHO is working with national authorities to respond quickly & effectively to these outbreaks"- @DrTedros He had recently travelled to Canada. There are two main strains: the Congo strain, which is more severe – with up to 10 percent mortality – and the West African strain, which has a fatality rate of 1 percent of cases. The smallpox vaccine, which also protects against monkeypox, has been phased out. The UK infections have been reported as the West African strain. “Historically, there have been very few cases exported.

Monkeypox can cause fever, swollen lymph nodes and a rash that looks like chickenpox or syphilis, and while usually mild it has been known to have a ...

It is not clear whether the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) exercised this option over the monkeypox outbreaks or for another reason (countries stockpile smallpox vaccines for defense purposes). It’s also unclear for how long the disease may have been circulating, though WHO’s Van Kerkhove told STAT News it’s “clearly… been going on for a few weeks.” There are also two broad strain of monkeypox, one circulating in West Africa and the other the Congo Basin. The West African strain, which officials believe is involved in the current outbreaks, has a fatality rate of around 1%. The Congo Basin strain has a much higher documented fatality rate, as high as 10%. Beyond that, scientists don’t know the host animal for the virus. While experts believe the pattern of infections indicate the disease spreading in the community, it’s not clear how or if different clusters are connected. Most of the monkeypox cases have been found among gay and bisexual men or men who have sex with men. Cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in the U.K., Spain, Portugal and Massachusetts, with more suspected and under investigation. The leader of the WHO’s emerging diseases unit Maria Van Kerkhove told STAT News people should be cautious about fixating on the pattern among men who have sex with men.

An investigation is underway by British health officials to detect the cause of the outbreak which has hit mainly London, now affecting nine people, Xinhua news ...

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Health authorities in North America and Europe have detected dozens of suspected or confirmed cases of monkeypox since early May, sparking concern the ...

"We really need to better understand the extent of monkeypox in endemic countries... The Massachusetts Department of Health, said that the case there -- the first confirmed this year in the United States -- occurred in a patient who had recently traveled to Canada and "poses no risk to the public, and the individual is hospitalized and in good condition." to really understand how much is circulating and the risk that it poses for people who are living there, as well as the risk of exportation," infectious disease epidemiologist Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove said at a WHO press conference on Tuesday on global health issues.

The outbreaks are raising alarm because the viral disease, which spreads through close contact and was first found in monkeys, mostly occurs in west and central ...

Smallpox was eradicated by vaccination in 1980, and the shot has since been phased out. Only the first case reported on May 6 had recently traveled to Nigeria. The virus spreads through close contact, both in spillovers from animals and, less commonly, between humans. It is usually mild, although there are two main strains: the Congo strain, which is more severe – with up to 10% mortality – and the West African strain, which has a fatality rate in about 1% of cases. "Historically, there have been very few cases exported. The UK cases have been reported as the West African strain.

Italy has diagnosed its first case of the monkeypox infection at the Spallanzani hospital in Rome, the hospital said on Thursday, adding that the person, ...

Outbreaks in the UK, Portugal and Spain are raising alarm because the disease mostly occurs in Africa. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

Smallpox was eradicated by vaccination in 1980, and the shot has been phased out. It is usually mild, although there are two main strains: the Congo strain, which is more severe - with up to 10 per cent mortality - and the West African strain, which has a fatality rate of more like 1 per cent of cases. The UK cases have been reported as the West African strain.

“We are particularly urging men who are gay and bisexual to be aware of any unusual rashes or lesions and to contact a sexual health service without delay if ...

The disease can also be transmitted by touching monkeypox skin blisters or scabs, or getting too close to coughs and sneezes from an infected person. Patients will usually need to stay in a specialist hospital so infection doesn’t spread and general symptoms can be treated. The rash is sometimes confused with chickenpox, because it starts as raised spots which turn into small scabs filled with fluid. But it is possible to spread the disease through touching clothing, bedding, or towels used by someone with the rash. It’s thought to be spread by rodents, such as rats, mice, and squirrels. Monkeypox can be caught from a bite by an infected animal, or by touching its blood, body fluids or fur.

It's a virus that is mainly spread by wild animals in parts of west and central Africa, according to the WHO — but human-to-human transmission can also occur, ...

Preston added: “Monkeypox is not recognized as a sexually transmitted disease — that is, something that’s hugely dependent on being spread through sexual contact. “That’s the worrying thing — the epidemiology would suggest there are other unrecognized cases at the moment. “As a whole, we shouldn’t be panicking — this is not a disease that spreads like COVID-19 within the general population,” Mabbott told Fortune. “Monkeypox isn’t very transmissible in humans. “That would suggest there are other contacts forming the connections between those cases,” he explained. “It’s still somewhat of a mystery as to how this is spreading. The West African variety – the strain currently circulating in Europe and the U.S. – has a recorded fatality rate of around 1%, while the Central African strain’s recorded fatality rate is around 10%. He added that it was concerning to see that some of the cases identified in the U.K. had no links to one another. The cases identified in the U.K. have all been the West African strain of the virus, which is thought to be milder than the Central African strain. Two cases of the virus were identified in London a week after the first case was reported — but authorities said the individuals had no connection to the previously confirmed case, and “where and how they acquired their infection remains under investigation.” It’s a virus that is mainly spread by wild animals in parts of west and central Africa, according to the WHO — but human-to-human transmission can also occur, and it is occasionally exported to other parts of the world when an infected person travels. Canada is investigating 13 suspected cases of the disease, with the U.S. patient reported to have recently traveled to the country. The first case associated with the current outbreak was reported in the U.K. on May 7 in a person who had recently traveled to Nigeria, where they are believed to have contracted the disease.

STAT had many questions about monkeypox. Fortunately, Andrea McCollum, an expert at the CDC, had many answers.

It depends on the person and it depends on the extent of the rash. If a patient’s been in bed, then the lesions have exudate and pus and that gets on the bed linens and the virus is in that material. A number of the cases are in men who have sex with men, which raises the question of sexual transmission. But at this point, everything we’re hearing and seeing is consistent with what we know about monkeypox, which is that it requires close contact. We do know that lesions themselves, including the ones that present on the surface of the skin, they’re loaded with virus. It’s only during that healing phase [with monkeypox] when there’s crusting and the skin is regenerating a bit, patients mention itching. But I will remind you that you can have an R-naught of less than one and the agent can still be transmitted person to person. I don’t think we have a really good handle on whether most of it is respiratory or skin-to-skin. We don’t have really good contemporary estimates of R-naught. [R-naught is the figure that estimates how many people an infected person, on average, will infect.] We don’t really have any estimates of R-naught for the West African clade. So far it seems that the cases are being caused by viruses from the West African clade, which triggers milder disease than the other family of viruses, called the Congo Basin clade. Monkeypox causes a flu-like array of symptoms, but also comes with a distinctive rash; one telltale sign is the fact that lesions often appear on the palms of hands. At this point, the cases are mainly being detected by clinics that treat sexually transmitted diseases and are being seen in men who have sex with men.

A smattering of monkeypox cases in Britain has prompted authorities to offer a smallpox vaccine to some healthcare workers and others who may have been ...

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The announcement raises the possibility that the first monkeypox infection found in the United States is connected to the Canadian cases.

The cases diagnosed in Europe have been caused by the West African clade of the virus, which is typically less dangerous than the Congo Basin clade. In Africa, monkeypox has been fatal in about 1 in 10 cases, with severe disease and death more likely among children, young adults, and people with compromised immune systems, though the ECDC said in its report that the case fatality rate for the West African clade has been 3.6%. One possible explanation for why so many cases in the current outbreak have been identified at STI clinics is that people have turned up with “a preponderance of lesions in the genital area,” the ECDC wrote. Health authorities have stressed cases are likely not limited to this population, both to try to avoid stigmatization, and to ensure that clinicians remain on the lookout for infections in other groups of people. The health officials in Montreal said the suspected cases there have included painful lesions in the mouth and on the penis. It’s also not clear, for example, if the U.S. case is related to the cases in Europe. Genomic sequencing can help answer that question.

The virus behind monkeypox is a close relative of the one that caused smallpox but is less deadly and less transmissible, causing symptoms that include fever ...

The oft-cited fatality rate of about 10 percent applies to a strain that infected people in the Congo Basin. The West African strain, which several of the current cases have been linked to, has a fatality rate closer to 1 percent—and that’s in poor, rural populations. And as another bioterrorism precaution, stockpiles of three smallpox vaccines are large enough “to vaccinate basically everyone in the U.S.” Inglesby said. It’s urgent to identify people early, get them treatment, and identify contacts.” It helps that one common symptom is an obvious rash, which looks like an extreme version of chickenpox. As for the U.S., “there are currently no additional suspected cases” beyond the individual in Massachusetts, McCollum told me. Are they the work of a new and more transmissible strain of monkeypox? A 2012 study suggested that the virus can persist in aerosols for several days—but that was under artificial laboratory conditions, and persistence is just one small part of the infection process. For decades, a few scientists have voiced concerns that the monkeypox virus could have become better at infecting people—ironically because we eradicated its relative, smallpox, in the late 1970s. “I’ve seen a lot of people writing as if everything we know about monkeypox is definitive and finalized, but the reality is that it is still a rare zoonotic infection,” she said. “I don’t think people should be freaking out at this stage,” Carl Bergstrom of the University of Washington told me, “but I don’t trust my own gut feelings anymore, because I’m so sick of all this shit that I tend to be optimistic.” Then again, Marr is less certain about monkeypox than she was about COVID. And Titanji notes that our knowledge of monkeypox is based on just 1,500 or so recorded cases, as of 2018. Rarely, monkeypox makes it to other continents, and when it does, outbreaks “are so small, they’re measured in single digits,” Thomas Inglesby, the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told me. This suggests that the monkeypox virus may be surreptitiously spreading from person to person, with some number of undetected cases.

A monkeypox outbreak is emerging in the U.S. and Europe, and at least one country is amping up countermeasure preparedness.

LONDON: A smattering of monkeypox cases in Britain has prompted authorities to offer a smallpox vaccine to some healthcare workers and others who may have ...

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