There are already over 700 people in the United States infected with monkey acne virus. Will monkey acne become the next big pop virus?

2022, it is destined to be a year when the world is not too peaceful. Various epidemics are not flat, and waves are up again!

The wave of COVID-19 virus was slightly retreated, but another virus came one after another. Since May of this year, many countries around the world have successively confirmed many cases of monkeypox virus infection. Although monkeypox virus has appeared for decades, the people suffering from monkeypox were mainly distributed in Africa, and countries outside Africa are very rare. Rarely, monkey acne virus is currently spreading in the world. According to statistics, more than 700 people in the United States have infected monkey acne virus so far!

Do you have to make us be vigilant. Will monkey acne become the next big pop virus? It is estimated that monkeypox is a disease that is still very unfamiliar to most netizens. Today we will talk about how sacred monkeypox is.

What is a monkey acne? What is the mortality rate of monkey acne virus infection?

Monkey acne was infectious disease caused by monkey acne virus infection. The virus was first discovered and separated on monkeys in 1958, so it was named Monkey Virus. . Monkey acne virus named monkeys actually made monkeys back, because monkey acne virus did not use monkeys as the main body, but rodents such as mice, squirrels, rabbits .

Monkeypox is a zoonotic disease that can invade the human body through the oropharynx, nasopharynx and skin. The incubation period of infection is about 7-14 days, up to 21 days. After infection, symptoms similar to smallpox may occur, such as fever, headache, muscle soreness, pharyngitis, sweat and lymphadenopathy, etc., then the patient will enter the rash period. Elsewhere on the body, the rash is characterized by pustular eruptions, with lesions up to 2-10 mm in diameter.

I believe this is a question that everyone is very concerned about. Since the monkey acne is similar to smallpox, the mortality rate will not be low. Earlier studies have reportedly reported that the virus mortality rate can reach up to 10%. Although the mortality rate has also declined with the emergence of the vaccine in recent years, it is also 3%-6%according to the recent reports. This number is also a very high probability for the billions of people worldwide. It is necessary to know that the mortality of infection with the COVID-19 virus is only 0.2%.

Will monkey acne become the next big epidemic virus?

Although the Director -General of the WHO Tan Desai said on July 6, local time that there are more than 6,000 cases of acne in 58 countries and regions around the world, of which more than 80%of the cases come from Europe. Recently, American cases seem to increase compared to many,. Most of the monkey acne virus is popular in Africa. Like two continents, different countries have found that cases are rare, and there are no obvious intersections between many cases.

On January 22 this year, the United States lost four monkeys. After the loss, the US police warned ordinary people not to approach these monkeys. After being caught, three of them were euthanized. The news reports at that time warned these monkeys to infect humans, including monkey acne virus and type B herpes virus, which was too coincidental.

However, most scholars believe that monkey acne will not become the next big pop virus, the main reason is the following points.

1) The mortality rate of monkey acne is too high

From the characteristics of the virus, monkey acne virus is DNA virus, and the COVID-19 virus is RNA virus. The two genes are different, so they determine the dissemination ability, host, and mutation frequency of monkey acne virus.

Viruses with high mortality are usually difficult to cause great popularity, because the transmission chain of the virus after the death of the host is also cut off. In addition, the high death rate of monkey acne will definitely attach great importance to governments and people from all over the country, and the attitude towards monkey acne virus will not choose to lie flat like the COVID-19 virus.

2) Monkey acne has a ready -made vaccine to prevent and control

Because of the earliest appearance, the monkey acne vaccine has also been released, but the virus has been in a state of dysfunction in recent years, and everyone has not paid much attention to vaccination. Nowadays, the US government has also urgently distributed 144,000 doses of vaccines to prevent monkey acne virus. It is believed that with the vaccination of the vaccine, the virus has also been quickly suppressed.

3) Increase human detection capacity of human beings

Just like the nucleic acid detection of the COVID-19 virus, the monkeypox virus can also be tested for nucleic acid. With our current nucleic acid detection capabilities, it is not difficult to conduct large-scale monkeypox virus nucleic acid detection, so it is easier for us to detect early and cut off the chain of transmission early.

epilogue

Of course, nothing is absolutely absolute, just like when the COVID-19 virus was discovered at the beginning, most people would not think that it could cause the global governor of the world for several years, so we still should not take it lightly. We must maintain a high degree of vigilance. , especially the recent increase in the number of monkeypox cases in the United States. For some high-risk groups of monkeypox infection, it is best to vaccinate in advance to prevent infection. At the same time as the -19 epidemic, do a good job in the prevention and control of the monkeypox epidemic.

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