Travellers should consider getting vaccinated against mpox if they will be visiting affected areas in Africa, new advice says.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has updated its recommendations in response to outbreaks of a new strain of the virus. Other continents, including Europe, can expect some cases too, it says.
EDC says the risk of it spreading everywhere is low, despite the World Health Organization recently declaring the mpox situation a global emergency.
The disease – formerly known as monkeypox – can be passed on by close contact with anyone with the infection.
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So far this year, mpox outbreaks have been recorded in 13 African nations, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and the Central African Republic.
That's a significant increase of the 14,957 cases in 2023 and 7,146 cases in 2022.
Mpox is a disease caused by infection with mpox virus.
In 2022, an outbreak began around the world in areas where mpox is not usually found. Previously, mpox was found mainly in Central and West Africa, often in forested areas.
How can you get monkeypox in 2024?
Monkeypox is an infectious disease caused by a virus transmitted to humans by infected animals, but it can also be transmitted from human to human through close physical contact.
How long is mpox contagious?
Infected people should be considered contagious from the time their symptoms start until the scabs from their rash fall off and a new layer of skin forms. OHSU experts say that once people have recovered from the virus, they can no longer spread it.
As people recover from their infections, they'll naturally want to avoid a repeat infection and repeat episodes of the pain and fear associated with the disease. The good news is that experts believe you are not likely to become reinfected with monkeypox after you've been infected or vaccinated.
What are the first symptoms of mpox?
The first symptoms of mpox include:
– a high temperature.
– a headache.
– muscle aches.
– backache.
– swollen glands.
– shivering (chills)
– exhaustion.
– joint pain.
No more jabs for me, I'm still paying the price for the last lot! Never ever again…..
If the medical system can't cure my mental illness (schizophrenia and bipolar) and only offer life long treatments and no cure…the medical system isn't going to cure this MPOX or COVID-19…or whatever is next to cause us disease.
just a matter of time til it's here in B.C., Canada…………………..sigh……………….
They must be very smart to be able to predict this stuff and scare everybody before it’s arrival
Spreading fear again…
WHAT THE HELL😢
Buy shares in phizer
Dam, lockdown looming for no reason. They killed off the weakest with covid!
There they are at it again! BEWARE THEM!
On its way to the uk with iligal migrants soom
The WHO has been declared an agency of international concern
Tedros is a terrorist
Planned bullshit
….yeah you goin to screen the thousands of illegals floating across the channel every week….oh no you won’t…that’s right…we need to respect the human rights of all these criminals invading our country…ffs…🙄
F WHO.
F BBC.
Close off the flights from infected countries,
And Africans love to travel around the world 🌍🌎
The main form of transmission is via male to male s*xual relations aka MSM and promiscuity within Europe? So how to manage it?
Don't you dare touch me at all under any circumstances either ever! I don't ever want any disease 🪰🦟 s in general that you're carrying 🧺on your bodies at all under any circumstances either ever ❤😂🎉😅😊! 8/18/24! 6:28pm! 2:30
Well. Roll our sleeves soon?
Boring. I’ve seen this one before. Just remember starmer wanted to lockdown earlier, harder and longer. And now he is building his army of thought police
The WHO…the most useless pointless organisation in the world. Without donations they wouldn’t even exist
They are getting tx, what is it that stops it?
How long do people live with it, how many have it in Africa?
Why are you talking about it as if it was a new decease. We all know that it is an old decease that comes and go. It is okay to let people know about it but it seems like WHO want make something out of this😢
A ZOMBIE VIRUS
In 2020 many many actors pretending to be dying. So PLAY IS REPEATING one more time.
Just in time for the election
Fake news. The mainstream media intend to spread fear during the election year like 2020!
I'm not a fan of mass immigration, but no, we don't need to close the borders because this is another scam.
Just look into the industrial pollution in parts of Africa, and the real causes of this supposedly viral illness shouldn't be hard to understand.
Africas contribution to World culture .. .= AIDS and 'M' pox ( and yes we do all know what the M stands for . . . ) . . . . Disgusting !!!
just fuck off with this already and let us live. I hate it here
Yes BBC we know your level of reporting. Funny how skin contact and breathing have kept in . Thats another winter without flu though
We are being told this is happening not warned it could … same playbook
oh no
fool me once, shame on you….
Bill Gates and his team spreads again new viruses to reduce population?
Keep them in Africa
Stop air traffic from Africa
Simple solution. Shut the borders to those from infected countries
if the media and WHO didn't exist it wouldn't be a problem
One case from someone that came from Africa does not indicate the virus is spreading 🙄
Nove lazi pa zar ima jos ovaca koji vjeruju u ovo.Pelcom unijeli bolesti u narod.