As experts were said to be tracking several cases across Europe — including Italy, Sweden, the U.K., Spain, and Portugal — Snopes readers asked our editorial team to take a deeper look at the rare, lesion-causing virus. Madison Dapcevich reports.
the World Health Organization . This event was likely a spillover from a much larger outbreak in Nigeria that lasted from 2017 to 2019.
“Monkeypox reemerged in Nigeria in 2017 after more than 40 years with no reported cases. Since then, there have been more than 450 reported cases in Nigeria and at least eight known exported cases internationally,”Before that, human monkeypox in travelers from Nigeria had been documented on just seven occasions since 1978.Like smallpox, monkeypox is a DNA virus that belongs to the poxvirus group, which is endemic to parts of Africa.
Monkeypox is mostly transmitted from infected wild animals to people and is mostly seen in parts of the world where humans interact with wild animals. Though not easily transmitted between people, human-to-human contact can occur and is spread through contact with bodily fluids, sores, or shared items, like clothing that has been contaminated. Infection can also spread through respiratory droplets.
It can take up to 21 days for symptoms to develop, with infection lasting up to a month. Because of its tell-tale skin lesions, monkeypox sometimes is confused with a sexually transmitted infection like syphilis or herpes, or with the virus that causes chickenpox. “Milder cases of monkeypox may go undetected and represent a risk of person-to-person transmission. There is likely to be little immunity to the infection in those travelling or otherwise exposed, as endemic disease is normally geographically limited to parts of West and Central Africa,” wrote WHO in a May 18
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