Symptoms in patients infected with monkeypox. (Archyde.com file photo)
[Compiled by Guan Shuping/Comprehensive Report]A number of cases of monkeypox infection have been reported in Europe and the United States recently, which attracted the attention of the World Health Organization (WHO), and an emergency meeting was held for this. Top U.S. health officials have pointed out that monkeypox may be contracted through close human-to-human or sexual contact.
“Bloomberg” reported on the 21st that senior U.S. health officials, who requested anonymity, said in a telephone interview that unlike the Wuhan pneumonia virus, the spread of monkeypox requires closer contact, including sharing a bed, clothing or toothbrush with an infected person. ; WHO has confirmed 37 cases of monkeypox and is investigating another 71 suspected cases, so far mostly in men who have sex with men.
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Monkeypox mainly occurs in Africa. Last year, the United States reported 2 cases of monkeypox, both of whom had recently visited Nigeria. However, the aforementioned official said that the current confirmed case in the United States and the cases in many countries around the world are not related to African countries. . The scale of this rare infection has caused concern in the scientific community. More activities and social occasions may give the virus a better chance of spreading as summer approaches, officials said, but the U.S. is now well stocked with antiviral drugs to fight monkeypox.
The Associated Press quoted former Nigerian Academy of Science leader Oyewale Tomori, a professor of virology who is now a member of several WHO advisory groups, as saying he was “shocked” by the recent cases. “It’s different from the kind of spread we’ve seen in West Africa in the past, maybe something new is happening in the West now”.
British health officials are also learning whether the wave of monkeypox is transmitted through sexual contact, and health care workers have been asked to be alert to possible cases, but stressed the risk to the general public remains low. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said on the 20th that a “significant portion” of cases in the UK and Europe were young men who had no travel history to Africa, were gay or bisexual, or had sex with men; authorities in Portugal and Spain also Said that the cases in the country are mostly young men who have had same-sex sex.
However, experts stress that they do not yet know whether monkeypox can be transmitted through sexual activity or other close sexual contact. Tomori said that there have been no cases of sexually transmitted infections in Nigeria, but he also said that it is usually only after larger epidemics with different transmission patterns that the virus is known to spread through sexual contact, such as Ebola. )Virus.
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