Four more people have been diagnosed with Monkey pox in the United Kingdombringing the total number of cases detected in the last week to seven.
As reported by Dailymail these are four gay men, without having apparently preceded his trip to Africa.
They are not related to the previous three cases, but two of the new patients are known to each other.
The initial symptoms of monkey pox include fever, headache, muscle aches, back pain, swollen lymph nodes, chills and exhaustion.
One can be developed skin rashwhich changes and goes through different stages before it finally takes the form of scabies, before it recedes.
Most cases are reported in the PRC and Nigeria.
In 2003, the disease was detected in the United States when an outbreak occurred after the introduction of rodents from Africa.
The first cases were reported in the UK in 2018, when three people became infected with the virus after a man returned from Nigeria, including an NHS nurse.
The incident meant that more than 50 people had been warned that they had been exposed to the potentially deadly virus, but no other cases of this outbreak have been reported.
The virus can enter the body through “cracked skin”, the respiratory tract or the eyes, nose or mouth.
It can be spread through people through droplets in the air and by touching the skin of an infected person or touching objects that have been infected by them.
DAILY MAIL
Follow Skai.gr on Google News
and be the first to know all the news
