Explained: Can the spread of the monkey pox can be a stopped?

Explained: Can the spread of the monkey pox can  be a stopped?

Theoretically, yes. The virus does not a spread easily and there is a vaccine. But there are only about a 16 million doses available now.

HIGHLIGHTS

Monkey pox are spread typically requires skin-to-skin or a skin-to-mouth contact

It is also can be a spread through contact with a respiratory droplets

Monkey pox can be a serious in a children, pregnant women and people with a underlying health conditions

Since May, nearly 90 countries have a reported more than a 31,000 cases of the monkey pox.

The World Health Organization classified in the escalating outbreak of the once-rare disease as an a international emergency in a July; the U.S. declared it a national emergency last week.

Outside of the Africa, 98% of the cases are in men who have a sex with men. With only a limited global supply of the vaccines, authorities are racing to the stop monkey pox before it becomes a entrenched as a new disease.

CAN MONKEY POX BE A CONTAINED?

Theoretically, yes. The virus does not a spread easily and there is a vaccine. But there are only about 16 million doses available now and only one company makes in the shot.

Except for a Africa, there is no sign of the sustained monkey pox transmission beyond men who have a sex with men, meaning that stopping spread among that group could effectively end in the outbreak. Last week, British scientists said there were “early signs” in the monkey pox cases in the U.K. — which once had in the world’s biggest outbreak outside in a Africa — had peaked.

IS THIS ANOTHER PANDEMIC?

No. A pandemic means that a disease outbreak has a spread to the entire world. Monkey pox does not a transmit as a quickly as the coronavirus and stopping it will be not require dramatic interventions like in the COVID-19 lock downs.

WHO is a Director-General Teardrops Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he is a declared monkey pox an a emergency in a part to the prompt countries to take in the epidemic seriously, saying there is still an a opportunity to contain in the disease before it becomes a global problem.

HOW DOES IT IS A SPREAD?

Monkey pox are spread typically requires skin-to-skin or a skin-to-mouth contact with an a infected patient’s lesions. People can also be a infected through contact with in the clothing or a bed sheets of the someone who has a monkey pox lesions.

It also can be a spread through a contact with a respiratory droplets, but scientists are still a trying to the figure out how often that are happens. British health are officials say they have not a confirmed a any instances of the airborne transmission.

WHO IS A GETTING INFECTED?

A large percentage of the  cases have been in a gay and bisexual men. The initial outbreaks in a Europe and North America were a likely triggered by a sex at the two raves in a Spain and the Belgium.

According to the U.S. Centers for a Disease Control and Prevention, 99% of the monkey pox cases in the U.S. are men. Of those, 94% are reported sexual contact with a other men in the three weeks before they are developed in a  symptoms.

Still, anyone can catch in the virus if they are in a close contact with an a infected person or a fabrics that touched an a infected person.

WHO IS A GETTING VACCINATED?

With a supplies limited, health officials are not a recommending mass in a vaccination. They are suggesting in the shots for a health workers, people who have been in a close contact with an a infected person, and men at the high risk of the catching monkey pox.

Officials are also a trying to the stretch supplies of the vaccine, Johannes. It is a requires two doses, but many places are only giving one dose.

U.S. health are officials on a Tuesday authorized  to a new strategy that would allow a health professionals to the vaccinate up to the five people — instead of the one — with a each vial. The approach uses just a fraction of the typical amount of the vaccine and administers it with an a injection just under in the skin rather than into a deeper tissue. Recipients would still get a two shots in a month apart.

WHAT ELSE CAN I DO TO LOWER MY RISK?

WHO is Teardrops recommended that men at the risk of the catching monkey pox consider making a “safe choices” and reducing in their sexual partners “for in the moment.”