According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 1,100 monkeypox cases have been detected in the US as of Wednesday, July 13th, but this may be a significant undercount.
According to the CDC, about 10,800 monkeypox cases have been detected in the US so far this year.
There are laboratory-confirmed monkeypox cases in both the global and US cases count, as well as infections attributed to the Orthopoxviruses, which include monkeypox, and the related cowpox and camelpoxviruses.
According to the CDC, the outbreak is being driven by a group of monkeypoxviruses.
Children younger than 8 years old, people with weakened immune systems, and people who are pregnant or breastfeeding face a higher risk of death from this type of Viruses.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have begun ramping up the nation's capacity for monkeypox testing.
The HHS said that health care providers will be able to use the laboratories by early July.
It is possible that Monkeypox has been spreading in the UK for a long time.
Since the first US cases were detected in May, monkeypox testing has been hard to come by, so the CDC's official case count is likely misleading.
Health care providers used to have to go through a cumbersome process to procure tests, and many of them only supplied tests to patients with a narrow definition of monkeypox.
According to Live Science, the CDC recently updated its guidance as to who should be tested for monkeypox based on their symptoms. Many of the recent monkeypox cases in the US have not matched classical descriptions.
Normally, monkeypox infections start with flu-like symptoms, such as a sore throat, headaches, and fatigue.
The "pox" rash begins to appear around the face, in the oral cavity, and on the hands and soles of the feet.
The rash starts out as a discolored patch of skin and eventually forms into raised bumps, blisters, and large, pus-filled blisters that eventually fall off. In most cases, the symptoms go away in a couple of weeks.
Some patient's symptoms have deviated from the norm in the current outbreak. Some patients had flu-like symptoms but didn't experience flu-like symptoms at all, according to the CDC.
Symptoms of painful inflammation and rectal bleeding were caused by some patients who developed a rash around the genitals. It's unusual for patients to have different stages of a rash at the same body site.
The CDC said that patients suspected of having STDs should also be tested for monkeypox because it can be mistaken for other STDs.
The World Health Organization says that monkeypox can be spread when people come into contact with a person's bodily fluids, such as clothing or linens.
Respiratory droplets can be used to transmit, but face-to-face contact is usually required. The virus can be passed through the mother's uterus and can also be passed on to newborn babies.
Experts warn that smallpox-related Viruses are still a threat.
The current outbreak of monkeypox may have a reproduction number of 0.8, according to preliminary research. That means that a single person is more likely to spread the disease to others.
The majority of confirmed cases have been found in men who have sex with men. It's not because monkeypox is a sexually transmitted disease or that men who have sex with men are more likely to get it, it's because the virus is spreading in this social network.
There are no approved drugs that can be used to treat monkeypox.
In severe cases, patients may receive antiviral medications intended to treat other infections, such as tecovirimat, which is designed to treat smallpox and other orthopoxviruses, according to the CDC.
It is possible to treat severe monkeypox infections with a vaccine made from the blood of people who received the vaccine.
According to the CDC, people who have recently been exposed to monkeypox may be given a vaccine to reduce the severity of their symptoms or to prevent the illness altogether.
The New York Times reported that ACAM2000 carries a risk of severe side effects in immunocompromised people, pregnant people and older adults, which is why it's preferred over the newer JYNEOS.
The CDC and HHS launched a campaign to increase vaccine access during the monkeypox outbreak.
Those who had close physical contact with someone diagnosed with monkeypox, those who know their sexual partner was diagnosed with monkeypox, and men who have sex with men who have recently had multiple sex partners are all eligible for free vaccinations.
The vaccine plan's roll out has not gone smoothly.
The plan's announcement was criticized by experts for being too slow and limited in scale.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that health and city officials in San Francisco have requested that the federal government quickly distribute more vaccine doses.
In New York City, vaccine appointments have been filling up fast, and Mayor Eric Adams wrote to the president to request more vaccine.
New Mexico and South Dakota have not received any vaccine doses, according to CNN.
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The original article was published by Live Science. The original article can be found here.
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