TRIBUNNEWS.COM – A total of 17,156 people in 75 countries were confirmed to be infected with Monkeypox or monkey pox as of 27 July 2022.
What is the difference between smallpox and monkey pox?
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) writes that the symptoms monkey pox and smallpox in humans are almost similar, but the symptoms monkey pox milder than the symptoms of smallpox.
Collect Kompas.comthe main difference in symptoms, monkey pox causes the lymph nodes to swell (lymphadenopathy), whereas chickenpox does not.
Meanwhile, Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin said, monkey pox liver monkeypox can only be transmitted after there are symptoms of the patient.
“This (monkeypox) is only contagious if the symptoms are visible,” said Minister of Health Budi, Wednesday (27/7/2022), quoted from the Ministry of Health page.
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It is known that the transmission of the virus monkeypox through physical contact with the patient.
The virus is transmitted through fluid blisters from rashes or red patches from sufferers.
Initial symptoms start from fever and feeling unwell.
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But it’s only suspected that it is a disease monkeypox after a red spot.
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