Monkeypox in Sweden – Classified as a public risk disease

Monkeypox is common in Great Britain, but infection has now also been confirmed in Australia, North America, Europe and Sweden. According to Aftonbladet, the Swedish government classifies monkeypox as a public health disease, and the World Health Organization is calling a crisis meeting.

Monkeypox is a virus transmitted to humans from animals. She says the symptoms are similar to those of smallpox, but the disease is less severe World Health Organization, WHO.

Evening newspaper He points out, however, that the World Health Organization is now calling a crisis meeting and that the Swedish government is classifying monkeypox as a public health disease following a statement from the public health agency on Thursday.

On Thursday, the first Swedish case was detected in the Stockholm region, a person now receiving treatment but said not to be seriously ill. It is not clear where the patient was injured.

In the UK, 11 new cases were confirmed on Friday, meaning the country now has 20 confirmed cases and has seen more than double the cases in less than a week.

The first symptoms of monkeypox include fever, headache, backache, muscle aches, swollen lymph nodes, chills, fatigue, and even a rash may occur. People usually recover after two to four weeks Watchman.

It mostly occurs in Africa

Infection occurs mainly in central and western Africa and often near tropical rainforests, but is now increasingly occurring in urban areas. Many animals can carry the virus, both a group of rodents and many primates.

The virus that causes monkeypox belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus in the Poxvidridae virus family. Monkeypox was first diagnosed in humans in the 1970s in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and since then human cases have been reported in 11 African countries.

Since 2017, more than 500 suspected cases have been reported in Nigeria, more than 200 confirmed cases, the fatality rate is around 3 percent, and more cases are still being reported.

First cases outside Africa

The first cases of monkeypox outside Africa were reported in 2003 in the United States, it was linked to contact with infected dogs housed with Gambian mice imported from Ghana, and the outbreak resulted in 70 cases of monkeypox in the country.

Among others, monkeypox was reported in 2018 in travelers from Nigeria to Israel and Great Britain in 2018, 2019, 2021 and this year. This year, several cases of monkeypox have also been reported in several countries outside of Africa, and studies are underway to understand the sources of infection.

Europe, North America and Australia

In Great Britain, an investigation is underway as to where sufferers may have come into contact with monkeypox. CNBC He writes that US health authorities confirmed on Wednesday that a case of monkeypox had been found in Massachusetts and that this was the first case in the country in over a year.

Canada confirmed yesterday that two cases of monkeypox have been found in Quebec International news.

On Wednesday, cases were also found in Spain and Portugal, and now cases of monkeypox have been reported from Australia, France, Italy and Sweden. BBC.

case in Sweden

Sweden announces that one case has been confirmed Public Health Authority. The authority wrote that knowledge of how the disease spreads is incomplete, but the most common way of infection is contact with animals, but the infection can also spread between people and can be transmitted through sexual contact. When the infection is sexually transmitted, blisters may appear on the genitals and around the anus.

According to the Public Health Agency, there is no specific treatment for monkeypox, but in the UK, authorities offer the smallpox vaccine to certain healthcare workers and others who may have been exposed to the infection. Reuters.

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