by Daisy Luther, The Organic Prepper:
Is monkeypox the next big pandemic? Are you at risk? Is it serious? Here’s a roundup of what we know about the virus that’s all over the mainstream media.
Monkeypox has been on the global radar since 2022. Just last week, the World Health Organization declared it an international public health emergency, setting the stage for…
I think we remember.
Part of this article is from research I did in 2022. Part of it is newer information from the current panic. That’s why you’ll see such a wide disparity in the links and there will also be some older comments.
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Where did monkeypox start, and where are the current cases?
Monkeypox is not a brand new virus. It was initially discovered in 1958, in – you guessed it – colonies of monkeys. The first confirmed human case of monkeypox is documented as occurring in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to the CDC:
The first human case of monkeypox was recorded in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during a period of intensified effort to eliminate smallpox. Since then, monkeypox has been reported in people in several other central and western African countries: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Liberia, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, and Sierra Leone. The majority of infections are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (source)
What with global travel, the virus has escaped the continent of Africa, and cases have been diagnosed in countries where it is not endemic as of May 21, 2022, including the United States, Israel, Spain, the UK, Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Portugal. (source)
Currently, as of the update of this article, according to the CDC itself, there are only three cases of monkeypox in the entire United States.
What is monkeypox?
According to Harvard University:
Monkeypox is an infection caused by a virus in the same family as smallpox. It causes a similar (though usually less severe) illness and is most common in central and western Africa. It was first discovered in research monkeys more than half a century ago. Certain squirrels and rats found in Africa are among other animals that harbor this virus.
The early symptoms of monkeypox are flu-like and include
- fever
- fatigue
- headache
- enlarged lymph nodes.
The rash that appears a few days later is unique. It often starts on the face and then appears on the palms, arms, legs, and other parts of the body. Some recent cases began with a rash on the genitals. Over a week or two, the rash changes from small, flat spots to tiny blisters (vesicles) similar to chickenpox and then to larger, pus-filled blisters. These can take several weeks to scab over. Once that happens, the person is no longer contagious.
Although the disease is usually mild, complications can include pneumonia, vision loss due to eye infection, and sepsis, a life-threatening infection. (source)
Most of the statistics available for monkeypox are from African countries, where healthcare and nutrition are different than outside of that region.
The case-fatality ratio has varied but has remained between 0 and 10 percent in all registered infections.
“It’s been estimated that the West Africa strain, which the UK cases have, has a mortality rate of about one percent. There is also a strain found in the Congo region which can be fatal in as many as 10 percent of cases, but the UK cases do not have this strain,” Simon Clarke, associate professor in cellular microbiology at the University of Reading, told SMC. (source)
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