The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is tracking more than 200 people in Massachusetts who were in contact with the first confirmed monkeypox patient in the U.S., the New York Post reports.
The CDC also released a level-2 travel alert over the spread of the virus on Monday, advising people to “practice enhanced precautions,” while warning that the rare disease is fatal in up to 11% of people who become infected.
According to the CDC, symptoms include fever of 100.4 degrees or higher, headache, muscle aches, and swollen lymph nodes, followed by a rash. Skin lesions generally develop at the same time and progress through several stages on any part of the body before falling off. Patients are usually ill for two to four weeks.
Perhaps the worst part about this entire week of news has been the idea that only people of a certain sexual proclivity will be spreading this virus. Anyone who’s paying attention will know that children are most susceptible. Once this virus gains access to a household, it can be easily spread. Any suggestion that this is only a sexually transmitted virus for homosexual men is completely incorrect.
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