Monkeypox is a uncommon viral an infection which doesn’t unfold simply between folks, the company stated, qualifying the general threat to most of the people as “very low.”
“The an infection might be unfold when somebody is in shut contact with an contaminated particular person; nevertheless, there’s a very low threat of transmission to the overall inhabitants,” the assertion learn.
The affected person is believed to have contracted the an infection in Nigeria, the UKHSA stated, earlier than lately touring to the UK. He or she is receiving therapy in London on the professional infectious illness and isolation unit on the Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
Per the UKHSA, preliminary signs embody fever, headache, muscle aches, backache, swollen lymph nodes, chills and exhaustion.
The UKHSA stated it might contact folks “who might need been in shut contact with the person to supply data and well being recommendation,” as a precautionary measure.
Monkeypox is a relative of smallpox, which was eradicated in 1979, however is much less transmissible and fewer lethal. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “The primary distinction between signs of smallpox and monkeypox is that monkeypox causes lymph nodes to swell whereas smallpox doesn’t.”
Rodents, together with animals stored as pets, and monkeys can carry monkeypox and transmit it to folks. The CDC investigated one case in a traveler to Dallas final yr.
Forty-seven folks within the US have been contaminated with the virus in 2003 in an outbreak traced to a cargo of small mammals from Ghana bought as pets. There was a smaller outbreak in Britain in 2018.