A British study showed that more than half of people who contracted monkeypox during the current outbreak may have been infected by people who did not yet show any symptoms of the disease.
The study, led by the UK’s Health Security Agency, contrasts with current understanding of how monkeypox is spread, and could have major implications for how the infection is combated. CNN Reports.
In the study, It was also published in the British Medical JournalThe researchers examined 2,746 cases of monkeypox in the UK and identified 79 for which information was available about contacts, times of infection and when symptoms appeared. Based on their data, they concluded that more than half, 53 percent, of transmissions occurred during the pre-symptomatic phase of infection.
epidemiology world Bill Hanage At the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, she told CNN that government communications to the public about monkeypox should be updated.
– I think the message should be that if you’re concerned about monkeypox, you can’t assume that your partner isn’t contagious just because they don’t have symptoms.
Since May this year, more than 75,000 cases of monkeypox have been reported globally, of which more than 99 percent are in countries where the virus does not spread naturally, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention..
Sweden had as of week 42 a total of 209 confirmed cases of monkeypox. Most of them were reported in the metropolitan areas of Stockholm (147 cases), Skåne (28) and Västra Götaland (13). The Public Health Agency said most of those infected were men in the 20-59 age group.
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