Symptoms that will tell you if you have monkeypox

Monkeypox is increasing concern as the corona virus panic continues. The World Health Organization (WHO) had to declare a state of emergency twice in two years due to the outbreak of this virus. Monkeypox has spread to Europe after Africa. Its transmission has been observed in Asia.

Experts said that the carrier of this virus is not only monkeys, but also rats. Monkeypox is primarily a contagious disease. It is spread by contact with an infected person. It can also be spread through sexual intercourse, skin contact, talking or breathing with an infected person.

According to the news agency Reuters, 27 thousand people have been infected with this virus in the country since January 2023. 1100 people died. Most of them are children. Monkeypox is similar to smallpox. However, monkeypox infections are usually mild. Most people recover within two to four weeks. However, depending on the situation, it can sometimes lead to death.

Symptoms that indicate monkeypox

Common symptoms include fever (101.3°F), headache, muscle aches, back pain, weakness, swollen lymph nodes, and skin rashes or sores. Swelling of the lymph nodes is a characteristic symptom of monkeypox. A virus of the smallpox virus class is responsible for the disease. The virus has two variants - clade-1 (Central African) and clade-2 (West African). Four out of every 100 patients die from this disease.

In the first stage, the patient develops fever, along with blisters on the body and in most cases, a rash on the mouth. Later it spreads to other parts of the body, especially the palms of the hands and soles of the feet. There is no specific vaccine or medicine for monkeypox yet. However, the WHO reports that the vaccine used for smallpox or chicken pox is 85 percent effective against monkeypox. Until then, be careful.

What is monkeypox, how is it spread?

Despite the end of the corona epidemic, many countries have not yet overcome its shock. Poor economies are still struggling to catch up. Meanwhile, outbreaks of new viruses have been seen in various African countries. This virus is known as monkeypox (mpox).

The monkeypox situation in the African region is getting complicated. On August 14, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued an emergency warning of this virus. It is known that the patient of Mpox virus has also been identified in Sweden, a European country.

According to the Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 14,500 people have been infected with the virus from the beginning of this year to July. At least 450 people died during this time. The virus has also spread to Burundi, Central African Republic, Kenya and Rwanda.

According to the statistics, compared to the same period of last year, the rate of infection with Epoxy virus has increased by 160 percent. And the death rate increased by 19 percent. As a result, there is concern about the high mortality rate of the virus.

What is monkeypox?

The Bangladesh government's Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) has published a guideline on monkeypox on its website last year. The organization's advisor Dr. Mushtaq Hussain has given several tips to stay free from monkeypox virus.

The scientific name of monkeypox virus is orthopoxvirus, which includes smallpox and cowpox. Because of this monkeypox is similar to smallpox or smallpox. There are two clades or tribes of monkeypox virus. One is that the monkeypox mortality of tribes in the Central Africa clade can be up to 10%. Another is that tribes in the West African clade did not die of monkeypox.

Monkeypox is a viral zoonotic disease. In 1958, the disease was first detected in a monkey in a laboratory in Denmark, so it was called monkeypox. The World Health Organization has taken the initiative to change this name and give a new scientific name. Because the name may suggest that monkey is responsible for this disease, which is not correct. Outbreaks of this disease have been seen since 1970 in 11 countries, mainly in Central and West Africa.