Monkeypox outbreak in US: What to knowThe United States is experiencing a limited outbreak of the monkeypox virus.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently confirmed that in mid-July, a Texas man who had traveled from Lagos, Nigeria, to Atlanta, Georgia, had contracted the disease. The CDC is monitoring over 200 people the man had contact with and asking them to quarantine for about three weeks.
Monkeypox is typically found in the tropical forests of Central and West Africa and is carried by animals, including primates. The illness usually begins with a fever, muscle aches, chills, and swollen lymph nodes and then grows into a full-blown rash of pox-like blisters.
“If left untreated, there can be very severe effects from it, including fatality, although that is very rare,” said Chad Neilsen, director of infection prevention and control at the University of Florida Health Jacksonville.
The CDC said that the strain of the virus that infected the Texas man has a fatality rate of about 10%.
Severe cases can be treated with antiviral drugs, such as cidofovir. However, the use of antivirals is off-label as it has not been extensively tested in humans with the monkeypox virus. Antivirals have shown success against the monkeypox virus in laboratory and animal tests........................
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