{"id":1587655,"date":"2022-08-03T18:32:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T22:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1587655"},"modified":"2022-08-03T18:32:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T22:32:33","slug":"heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-monkeypox-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-monkeypox-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s Everything You Need To Know About The Monkeypox Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fheres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-monkeypox-outbreak%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1587655&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>With anxiety, frustration, and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/bitstream\/handle\/10665\/335820\/WHO-EURO-2020-1160-40906-55390-eng.pdf\">pandemic fatigue<\/a>\u201d remaining at high levels after two and a half years of watching COVID disrupt everything \u2013 from businesses to education to travel and much more \u2013 it is understandable that many people are worried that we are in the early stages of the next pandemic with the current monkeypox epidemic. Especially considering the regular <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2022\/07\/1122982\">headlines<\/a>, the unusual name, and the recent World Health Organization (WHO) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/director-general\/speeches\/detail\/who-director-general-s-statement-on-the-press-conference-following-IHR-emergency-committee-regarding-the-multi--country-outbreak-of-monkeypox--23-july-2022\">designation<\/a> of monkeypox as a \u201cpublic health emergency of international concern\u201d (PHEIC).<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t help that former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams, who presided over the nation\u2019s initial response to the COVID pandemic, recently induced some panic when he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeromeadamsmd\/status\/1547766121599684608?s=21&#038;t=81k9ONqhZjXo_JyUOM3sDw\">tweeted<\/a>, \u201cI hate to tell you all this, but <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/covid19?src=hashtag_click\">#covid19<\/a> is still a pandemic, and now <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/monkeypox?src=hashtag_click\">#monkeypox<\/a> is too. And both are gonna get a LOT worse before they get better\u2026 just wait till schools \u2013 including colleges \u2013 reopen in a few weeks\u2026\u201d before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wishtv.com\/news\/medical\/dr-jerome-adams-discusses-latest-development-on-monkeypox\/\">later admitting<\/a> that this is not actually the case.<\/p>\n<p>Given how new and unexpected the monkeypox outbreak is, we all have many questions: Is there any justification to panic over the monkeypox outbreak? Is monkeypox the next COVID? Will it lead to thousands or millions of deaths? Will there be any need to impose mandates or restrictions on most of society to control the epidemic? Who is at risk? How do we control it?<\/p>\n<p>To understand the answers to these questions, it is necessary to understand what monkeypox is as well as what it is not. Monkeypox is a member of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0891552019300170?via%3Dihub\">the pox family of viruses<\/a>, which includes the now-eradicated smallpox as well as the vaccinia or cowpox virus, which would confer immunity to smallpox to those it infected. Since it was first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/monkeypox\">discovered in humans in 1970<\/a>, over 50 years ago, monkeypox has been largely confined to West Africa, where humans interact closely with non-human animal reservoirs of the virus (which, incidentally, tend to be rodents, not monkeys). The monkeypox virus is known to spread from one human to another via prolonged skin-to-skin or other intimate contact. Unlike SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, it is not a respiratory pathogen, which means monkeypox is not thought to spread via inhalation of the same air or respiratory droplets that are released during a sneeze or cough.<\/p>\n<p>After a five to 21-day incubation period, an illness typically lasting between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/monkeypox\">two and five weeks<\/a> may begin. Initially, monkeypox-infected individuals develop flu-like <a href=\"https:\/\/clark.wa.gov\/public-health\/public-health-investigating-first-confirmed-case-monkeypox-virus-infection#:~:text=Monkeypox%20illness%20often%20begins%20with,%2C%20arms%2C%20legs%20and%20hands.\">symptoms<\/a>, including: muscle aches, fever, swollen lymph nodes, and fatigue. These early symptoms are then shortly followed by a rash resembling chickenpox, which typically originates in the face and eventually spreads outward to the hands and feet. While mortality has historically been low with monkeypox, at around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/monkeypox\">three to six percent of cases<\/a> (and with young adults and immunocompromised individuals at higher risk of severe disease), common complications can include respiratory distress and even blindness.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, a monkeypox <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm5227a5.htm\">outbreak occurred<\/a> in the United States, originating from infected prairie dogs that were housed near animals imported from Ghana, that infected 47 people. During this outbreak, all cases were attributable to animal-to-human transmission from close handling, bites, scratches, and cleaning the cages of sick animals. The outbreak was contained by quickly identifying the source and administering smallpox vaccines (which have cross-reactivity with monkeypox) to at-risk individuals. No deaths occurred in that outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/poxvirus\/monkeypox\/response\/2022\/index.html\">2022<\/a> monkeypox outbreak, however, has now arguably evolved into a global epidemic. At the time of this writing, there are over 25,000 global <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/poxvirus\/monkeypox\/response\/2022\/world-map.html\">confirmed cases<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/poxvirus\/monkeypox\/response\/2022\/us-map.html\">United States<\/a> has over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/poxvirus\/monkeypox\/response\/2022\/us-map.html\">6,000 confirmed<\/a> cases in 49 jurisdictions, with the highest case counts being in New York state and California. Thus far, among these cases, there have been no reported monkeypox-associated deaths in the United States. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cidrap.umn.edu\/news-perspective\/2022\/08\/non-endemic-countries-record-first-monkeypox-deaths\">Brazil and India<\/a> have each reported one death, with the Brazil patient being immunocompromised and having lymphoma. Spain has also reported two deaths. With a reported death rate in the current monkeypox epidemic far below the three to six percent previously reported, there is low concern for mortality, but there remains a risk for other complications of the infection.<\/p>\n<p>We have also amassed a great deal of information regarding who is at risk. As of August 2, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdph.ca.gov\/Programs\/CID\/DCDC\/Pages\/Monkeypox.aspx\">California\u2019s Department of Public Health<\/a> has reported that among its approximately 1,135 statewide cases of monkeypox, 14 have been hospitalized for the infection, with the vast majority of patients being aged between 25 and 44 years. From among the monkeypox cases with available data, 98.8% have been reported in male or transgender male individuals, with 97.2% of infected individuals identifying as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Given this information, California\u2019s public health website states: \u201cWhile it\u2019s good to stay alert about emerging public health outbreaks, the current risk of getting monkeypox in the general public is very low.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The WHO and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have taken a different<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With anxiety, frustration, and \u201cpandemic fatigue\u201d remaining at high levels after two and a half years of watching COVID disrupt everything \u2013 from businesses to education to travel and much more \u2013 it is understandable that many people are worried that we are in the early stages of the next pandemic with the current monkeypox &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1587750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1587655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1587750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}