United States: The Health care officials in Washington state mentioned about the recently reported case of the monkeypox virus in the Seattle area.
The state Department of Health and Public Health, on Friday, Seattle and King County made the confirmation that the infection in a King County man who recently travelled to a nation where the other monkeypox cases had been identified.
Moreover, the man was not admitted to the health care centre and is recovering at home.
As per to the sources, there is no additional presumptive monkeypox cases have been discovered in King County, though health officials continue to look for others who might have been exposed to the virus.
Along with this, the United States of America officials mentioned that the cases are concentrated among the men who have sex with men, mirroring trends seen in European nations where the outbreak began. Not all of them recently travelled to the countries where the virus had been detected, and signs monkeypox is spreading within the United States.
The authorities stated that the risk to the public is low because the monkeypox is difficult to transmit and more accessible to contain than the highly transmissible viruses such as the COVID-19 infection. But to quell the outbreak quickly, the public health agency wants doctors to be on the lookout for rashes associated with the monkeypox as well as for people with unusual lesions to seek medical treatment.
In addition, the officials also urged the people of America against stigmatizing gay men as carriers of the disease or assuming they are the only ones susceptible to the virus. The presumed cause in Virginia involves a woman who recently travelled to an African nation, says the officials.
Furthermore, monkeypox spreads through exposure to a person with active rashes or lesions, including skin-to-skin contact, contaminated clothing or bedding or by respiratory droplets at the time of prolonged face to face contact when lessons are in the mouth or throat.
The experts mentioned that early concentration of the cases in gay and bisexual men appears throat. Experts say the early concentration of cases in gay and bisexual men appears.
