Monkeypox virus, which originates in monkeys and is mainly transmitted between wild animals in West and parts of Central Africa, is a zoonotic virus, divided into 1% of evolutionary branches in West Africa and 10% in the Congo Basin of Central Africa.
This time, the monkeypox cases reported by many countries are West African evolutionary branches, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Portugal, and Spain.
According to the announcement of the British Security Agency on May 18, a total of 9 confirmed cases of monkeypox have been found in the United Kingdom, and it is said that more cases of monkeypox infection are likely to occur.
For the outbreak of monkeypox infection in many countries, the source of infection is unknown, and these people have not been to the monkeypox epidemic countries, so how can an African virus run to Europe and the United States?
There is also a coincidence in this matter, that is, it has been reported before that 100 monkeys shipped to the laboratory in the United States, several of which ran, were caught and killed on the spot, and those who came into contact with escaped monkeys also had fever symptoms, but the United States has never made public what the monkeys are used for and why the contacts are hot.
If a person is infected with monkey pox, there will be fever, headache, muscle ache, back pain, lymphadenopathy, etc., and then there will be a large area of skin and facial rashes, similar to the human smallpox virus, which will heal after about a few weeks, and some infected people will be seriously ill.
And monkeypox infected people who appear in the United States are ordered to pay close attention, whether they have traveled to monkeypox-endemic countries or are at high risk of infection.
In short, this monkeypox infection has appeared very strangely, and it is rare and unusual to spread it in European and American countries.
Hopefully, you can take precautions, and those who travel to Central and West Africa, remember to wash their hands with soap and eat thoroughly cooked meat to reduce the risk of monkey pox infection.