2022 Monkeypox Outbreak Global Map (Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)​​

 

Background: On Friday, August 5th, the US government publicized the monkeypox outbreak as a public health emergency followed by a spike in cases.

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• This decision would contribute to the rapid security from the virus, via immediate distribution of vaccines, treatments, and federal resources to restrain the expansion.

• These measures approached less than two weeks after the World Health Organization (WHO) disseminated its highest emergency caution pursued by a worldwide surge in cases, which have transcended 6,600 cases in the US, according to health officials.

  • Beyond 26,000 cases have been confirmed worldwide this year, as data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates.

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Experts’ voice: Several public health experts have voiced their concern about the emergency declaration, that it could further stigmatize the disease. Albeit anyone can catch monkeypox, the outbreak has been primarily concentrated among gay sexual intercourse. But it is not purely a sexually transmitted infection (STI), and can also be passed on by close contact with an infected person.

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Monkeypox in South Korea: The first case of monkeypox in the Republic of Korea was on June 21, 2022, from a 34-year-old male patient who traveled to Europe. On the day of his return to the Republic of Korea, the patient was confirmed infected with the virus.

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What you need to know about monkeypox:

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The symptoms: headache, fever & chills, muscle aches, rashes, swollen lymph nodes, and exhaustion.

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How it is spread: Touching clothing, bedding, or towels used by an infected person, touching monkeypox skin blisters or scabs, coughs or sneezes from an infected person, and direct contact during sexual intercourse.

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