Weather of Arabia - The American Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) raised the degree of danger in alerts from monkeypox to the second level, and also issued reports aimed at raising awareness of ways to spread the monkeypox virus after global cases of infection reached more than 1,000 cases in more than 30 countries.
The second level of alert (the highest level being the third) includes increased precautions that include wearing face masks during travel as well as avoiding close contact with animals and sick people, especially those with skin lesions.
Although the risk has not reached the same level as Covid-19, the world is still recording cases in many countries that do not usually report cases of monkeypox, including the United States, and many of these people have not been found recently in central or middle countries. West Africa, where monkeypox infection usually occurs.
The largest outbreak of the disease outside Africa is currently in Europe, and 366 cases have been reported in the United Kingdom since the first case was recorded in early May 2022, and there are more than 275 cases in Spain, and in Portugal 209 cases, health experts did not specify the source of the outbreak, Which has historically been associated with travel to endemic countries.
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Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by a viral infection, which usually appears initially as flu-like symptoms (fever, headache, muscle aches) before patients develop painful rashes, lesions and enlarged lymph nodes. The incubation period is usually between infection and the onset of Symptoms first appear from 7 to 14 days but can range from 5 to 21 days, and the disease can be fatal in up to 11% of those infected.
An infected person remains infected with the monkeypox virus until all the scales shed and a new layer of skin appears, which can take up to a month, according to the CDC.
According to the CDC, travelers can protect themselves from infection by taking the following steps:
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