Monkeypox is not deadly and doesn’t usually lead to hospitalization, although symptoms can be much more severe in patients who are immunocompromised. Story by TexasTribune.
A nurse prepares a monkeypox vaccine at the Pride Center at Equality Park in Wilton Manors, Florida, on Tuesday.Health experts in Texas and the U.S. believe that monkeypox infections will continue to rise exponentially.
Some 70 people across the U.S. caught monkeypox from infected pet prairie dogs that had been imported through a Texas company and housed near rodents from Ghana. It causes painful, pus-filled blisters and lesions on the skin, along with fever and swollen lymph nodes in the early stages of infection. It can last from a few days to a month. And that can put someone in isolation for weeks to avoid spreading it, which can disrupt working and child care.
The virus is considered to be contagious when symptoms show up until the scabs fall off of lesions and new skin grows. Casual contact like handshakes and even sharing food can carry the possibility of transmission, but the risk and chances of that happening are extremely low and are not the cause of the cases in the current outbreak, said Dr. Jennifer Shuford, chief state epidemiologist.
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