Eventually it can cover the trunk or whole body. This rash contains painful blisters that eventually fill with pus and crust over. Then about a week later, a rash appears, first on the face and then on the extremities. In textbooks (and on many agency websites), monkeypox is described as a disease that begins with flu-like symptoms, including a fever, tiredness and a single swollen lymph node.
It's not what you're seeing on the Google pictures of monkeypox," he says.
"The patient's skin lesion that he sampled to confirm the diagnosis is extremely subtle. Just Thursday morning, a colleague called to discuss a patient, newly diagnosed with monkeypox, who had only one lesion. The outbreak in that city includes at least 50 cases, he says. Vinh has been helping to treat 5 people with monkeypox at McGill University Health Centre in Montreal. But they are still contagious and may propagate the disease." "I think that's actually supercritical," Vinh says, "Because you can see how these patients can be missed. In fact, some patients have only one or two small lesions that can easily be confused with lesions caused by several sexually transmitted diseases, such as herpes and syphilis.
What's happening in this outbreak can be much more subtle, Vinh and other doctors involved with the outbreak say. Those images depict people with their trunk or hands covered with pus-filled blisters. This gap in detection may be because the symptoms of monkeypox in this outbreak can be much more subtle than in past cases.Īs a result, health officials are asking health-care workers – and individuals who may have been exposed – to be on the lookout for signs of monkeypox, especially signs of a rash.īut what does that rash often look like? Turns out, it's not what medical textbooks show, says infectious disease doctor Donald Vinh at McGill University. "I want to emphasize that this could be happening in other parts of the United States." And that's why we want to really increase our surveillance efforts," Jennifer McQuiston, who's deputy director of the Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Friday. "There could be community level transmission that is happening. Here in the U.S., officials don't know where one of the cases caught monkeypox. Goats and Soda OPINION: Media coverage of monkeypox paints it as an African virus. So health officials don't know where people are catching it, and many cases aren't being diagnosed, the scientists conclude. because, by and large, the cases are not linked to each other or linked to a common place or activity. Two studies, published Thursday, demonstrate the virus is spreading, undetected, in some communities of Portugal and the U.K. This transmission has "likely been ongoing for several weeks, if not months," she noted. Maria van Kerkhove, with the World Health Organization, on Thursday. Such a broad geographic spread suggests "widespread human-to-human transmission is currently underway," said Dr. and Portugal have detected the most cases, with about 200 and 100 cases in each country, respectively. Doctors have detected nearly 800 cases across the globe, from Argentina to the United Arab Emirates.
Spread to other parts of the body is possible but doesn't always occur.įor the first time in history, the world is facing an international outbreak of monkeypox. The lesions in cases that are part of the 2022 outbreak are often first seen on genitalia or the anus.
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