Monkeypox

THE Ministry of Health (MOH) has confirmed an imported case of monkeypox. Read more at The Business Times.

The initial symptoms of monkeypox include a high fever, swollen lymph nodes and a blistery chickenpox-like rash. Read more at straitstimes.com.

But there have been no deaths in France attributed to monkeypox. Among the latest cases recorded in France, "a first female case has been confirmed, the mode of transmission of which is currently being investigated, and all the others are men", the French national public health agency said in a statement. “Diagnostic tests and epidemiological investigations on the monkeypox are being conducted and the health authority will swiftly hold a briefing to announce measures and response plans once the results are out,” the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said in a statement.

The government recommends that some gay and bisexual men at higher risk of exposure to the virus should be offered vaccines to help rein in the outbreak, ...

If the virus finds a new animal host, it could settle in for the long run—and cause more outbreaks in the future.

And the more opportunity the virus has to infiltrate new hosts, the more opportunity it has to expand its species range. Amid the ongoing outbreak, Meseko, who is spending the year completing a fellowship in St. Paul, Minnesota, has been taking note of “how squirrels are just free all over the place.” Whatever threat they might pose to us, “animals are also in danger from humans,” he told me. It takes more to “figure out which one is a reservoir, versus which ones get infected, but aren’t actually responsible for maintaining circulation of the virus in people,” Jamie Lloyd-Smith, a disease ecologist at UCLA, told me. In the U.S., amid the current rash of monkeypox cases, the CDC has recommended that infected people avoid interacting with pets, livestock, and other animals altogether. But in the wilds of nature, “you can break your back and end up getting only five animals from a species,” Han, who’s been using machine learning to try to predict potential monkeypox reservoirs, told me. For that to happen, humans need to have enough contact with the animals to make exposure likely—on routine hunts for bushmeat, for instance, or in fractured landscapes where animals forage for food in and around people’s homes. But that rash of cases was a close call: an opportunity for the virus to set up shop in a new animal host. Building the case for an animal reservoir tends to require years of fieldwork, rigorous safety protocols, and a good deal of luck. One lasting interspecies hop, akin to the one that SARS-CoV-2 has made into white-tailed deer, and monkeypox will be “with us forever” in the U.S., says Barbara Han, a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute, in New York. In Central and West Africa, where the virus is endemic, scientists suspect that at least a couple of rodent species intermittently slosh it into humans. All signs point to rodents being “responsible for maintaining this virus in the wild,” Doty told me, and so he and his colleagues worry most about those mammals when they ponder what animals in non-endemic regions may pose the most future risk. Chewy, a prairie dog, had by that point succumbed to the disease, which he’d almost certainly caught in an exotic-animal facility that he’d shared with infected pouched rats from Ghana. But his owners’ other prairie dog, Monkey—named for the way he clambered about his cage—had contracted the pathogen and survived. But a lot of rodents scurry the planet— about 2,500 species, which together make up roughly 40 percent of known mammals.

SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Health (MOH) has confirmed one imported case of monkeypox infection in Singapore. The patient is a 42-year-old British national ...

Such symptoms include the sudden onset of high fever, swollen lymph nodes and rash. If suspected of being infected, they will be immediately conveyed to the NCID for further evaluation and isolation to prevent further transmission,” added the ministry. The incubation period ranges from five to 21 days. In some cases, however, the virus can cause serious complications. These symptoms subsequently resolved, and he then developed skin rashes on Jun 19. The patient is a 42-year-old British national who works as a flight attendant.

Singapore's health authorities have confirmed the country's first imported case of monkeypox since 2019, joining at least 42 countries that have reported ...

All close contacts will be placed on quarantine for 21 days since their last contact with the patient. Read more at straitstimes.com.

"In general, the risk of transmission to visitors at these locations is low, as data has shown that monkeypox transmits through close physical or prolonged contact. MOH said contact tracing is ongoing for the affected flights and for the duration of his stay in Singapore. Giving more details about the latest imported case, MOH said the man started to have a headache on June 14 and had a fever two days later. MOH also said on June 6 that a traveller who transited through Singapore to Australia the week before had tested positive for monkeypox. If they are suspected of being infected, they will immediately be taken to the NCID for further evaluation and isolation to prevent further transmission. The patient is a 42-year-old British man who works as a flight attendant and was in Singapore between last Wednesday and last Friday (June 15 and 17) and again on Sunday as he flew in and out of the country, said MOH on Tuesday night.

In response, the UK Health Security Agency's ( UKHSA ) vaccination strategy recommends offering the smallpox vaccine Imvanex, which is shown to be effective ...

Let’s help get the outbreak under control so we can all have a safe and happy pride season. Our extensive contact tracing work has helped to limit the spread of the monkeypox virus, but we are continuing to see a notable proportion of cases in gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men. Although most cases are mild, severe illness can occur in some people, so it is important we use the available vaccine to target groups where spread is ongoing.

SINGAPORE: - Singapore has confirmed an imported case of monkeypox, the health ministry said late on Tuesday, the first such case reported in Southeast Asia ...

Contact tracing is ongoing for affected flights and for the duration of the man's stay in Singapore. The patient, who tested positive on June 20, is a 42-year-old British man who works as a flight attendant and had flown in and out of Singapore around mid-June, the health ministry said in a statement. He is in stable condition in a ward at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases in Singapore, the ministry said.

Jabs will be offered to some men at higher risk of exposure, even if not a confirmed contact of a case. Test tubes labelled Monkeypox virus positive and ...

“Although most cases are mild, severe illness can occur in some people, so it is important we use the available vaccine to target groups where spread is ongoing. “Our extensive contact tracing work has helped to limit the spread of the monkeypox virus, but we are continuing to see a notable proportion of cases in gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men. Among other factors, some have noted that stigma around monkeypox may be making contact tracing difficult, while the UKHSA has also highlighted challenges including that contact details are not always available for tracing those who may have been exposed.

Singapore has reported the first confirmed case of monkeypox in Southeast Asia during this year's outbreak -- while two further suspected cases of the ...

We might have surprises from monkeypox in the near future so we must continue to strengthen our health and surveillance systems, work collaboratively with other countries and make better decisions than [we did] during the Covid pandemic." "It will be wise for countries to pay attention. He tested positive for monkeypox on Monday after developing skin rashes and experiencing headaches and a fever last week.

Data suggests the majority of transmission is occurring within the sexual networks of men who have sex with men. Read more at straitstimes.com.

But monkeypox can be passed on via intimate contact during sex. The outbreak has triggered concern since the virus is rarely seen outside of Africa - and the majority of cases are not related to travel to the continent. Scientists are scrambling to understand what is driving the current outbreak, its origins and whether anything about the virus has changed.

The patient is a 42-year-old British man who works as a flight attendant and had flown in and out of Singapore around mid-June, the health ministry said.

He is in stable condition in a ward at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases in Singapore, the ministry said. - He is in stable condition in a ward at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases in Singapore, the ministry said. - The patient, who tested positive on June 20, is a 42-year-old British man who works as a flight attendant and had flown in and out of Singapore around mid-June, the health ministry said in a statement.

British authorities are recommending gay and bisexual men at higher risk of exposure to monkeypox should be offered a vaccine, as the outbreak of the viral ...

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The patient in Singapore is a British flight attendant who had flown in and out of the country this month. South Korea is seeking to confirm two suspected ...

South Korea on Wednesday confirmed its first case of monkeypox virus and pledged to strengthen monitoring and response systems as it raised the alert level ...

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SINGAPORE — The Ministry of Health (MOH) has confirmed one imported case of monkeypox infection in Singapore.

"Persons under phone surveillance will receive daily phone calls during the 21-day period to monitor for any onset of symptoms. Contact tracing is ongoing, MOH said. The patient is a 42-year-old British man who works as a flight attendant.

SEOUL: South Korea on Wednesday (Jun 22) confirmed its first case of monkeypox virus and pledged to strengthen monitoring and response systems as it raised ...

The agency said this patient was diagnosed with another disease without giving details. It did not provide details of the individual. Advertisement

“We're in contact with our crew and providing the necessary support.” The Ministry of Health (MOH) on Tuesday confirmed one imported case of monkeypox infection ...

He did not visit other areas in Changi Airport, said MOH. All close contacts will be placed in quarantine for 21 days since their last contact with the case, said MOH. These symptoms later resolved, and he then developed skin rashes on Jun 19. Advertisement The Daily Mail reported that two pilots and nine cabin crew members have all been put in quarantine for 21 days. Advertisement

South Korea reported its first imported cases of monkeypox Wednesday, becoming the latest of some 40 countries—and the first in East Asia—to have identified ...

The UN health body is due to hold an emergency meeting on Thursday to determine whether to classify the global monkeypox outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern. South Korea reported its first imported cases of monkeypox Wednesday, becoming the latest of some 40 countries—and the first in East Asia—to have identified the disease. The patient, a 42-year-old British flight attendant who had been flying in and out of Singapore, tested positive for monkeypox on Monday.

South Korea has confirmed its first case of monkeypox infection, prompting health authorities to raise the alert level for the virus, as the country has ...

South Korea became the second country in Asia to report an infection with the virus after Singapore. Its health authorities plan to import antiviral drugs for monkeypox by July while bolstering measures to prevent its spread. South Korea confirmed Wednesday its first case of monkeypox infection, prompting health authorities to raise the alert level for the virus, as the country has just started to resume accepting foreign tourists following the coronavirus pandemic.

The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday said that it would probably list monkeypox as a category 2 notifiable communicable disease today or ...

Hayashi, who is the Fukushima branch head of the Friends of Lee Teng-hui Association in Japan, Xinhua news agency cited Putin as telling Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) during a telephone call on Wednesday that Russia opposed any interference from external forces in China’s internal affairs, such as in Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Ou said that Taiwanese elect their government in free and fair elections, adding that only the Those fears have become more pronounced over the past few years as Beijing has stepped up military activities near Taiwan. While Taiwan relies on the US for many of its weapons, such as fighter jets, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) has been pushing for a greater emphasis on Taiwanese-designed and made armaments, the most high profile of which is new submarines. Taiwan has been eager to demonstrate its resolve to defend itself should China ever attack. Starting yesterday, people who test positive with a Food and Drug Administration-approved at-home PCR test and are confirmed to have the disease by a doctor would be considered a confirmed COVID-19 case, he said. Separately, Chuang said that the definition of a confirmed COVID-19 case has been revised to include people who test positive with an at-home polymerase chain reaction (PCR) nucleic acid test that has been confirmed by a doctor.

On Tuesday, Singapore reported its first monkeypox case in a 42-year-old British flight attendant who had flown in and out of the country last week, ...

The risk of the disease remains low as transmission between humans requires close and direct physical contact with infectious lesions or ulcers. Health officials in Singapore claimed that the man had been in a stable condition after testing positive for the disease on Monday and had been transferred to an isolation ward. Health officials in Singapore claimed that the man had been in a stable condition after testing positive for the disease on Monday and had been transferred to an isolation ward

It said, there were two suspected cases one Korean citizen and a foreign national. The Korean citizen tested positive after showing symptoms such as fever, sore ...

With monkeypox spreading around the world, the World Health Organization plans to hold an emergency meeting on Thursday, to determine whether monkeypox is an emergency of international concern. South Korea has now raised the monkeypox risk level from "attention" to the second level, "caution" which requires confirmed cases to go into self-isolation. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency confirmed the country's first case of monkeypox on Wednesday.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention started shipping test kits to five commercial laboratory companies this week.

A positive result is presumed to be monkeypox because no other orthopox viruses are known to be circulating in the United States and is sent to the CDC for confirmatory testing. Health officials say recent patient symptoms have been different than in past outbreaks, including rashes concentrated around the genitals and without an associated fever. Critics say the process, which could involve calling public health hotlines and answering extensive questionnaires, can be slow and cumbersome, dissuading doctors from seeking tests.

WASHINGTON: The Biden administration announced on Wednesday (Jun 22) it is expanding monkeypox testing capacity to five commercial laboratory companies amid ...

More than 40 countries where monkeypox is not endemic have reported outbreaks of the viral disease as confirmed cases exceed 3,000. Thankfully we have right now the tools to fight and treat cases in America," Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra said. Advertisement

Commercial labs that can receive the tests approved by the Food and Drug Administration include Aegis Science, Labcorp, Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Quest ...

The Biden administration has started shipping monkeypox tests to commercial laboratories, in a bid to speed diagnoses for suspected infections for the virus ...

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