MONKEYPOX VIRUS DETECTED IN CHILDREN BY US HEALTH OFFICIALS

Sat 23 July 2022:

The Centers for Disease Control Prevention and Control (CDC) stated that children under the age of 8 were at “increased risk,” and US health officials discovered two cases of monkeypox in children.

Both of the children are doing well, despite the fact that the CDC claimed the virus originated in the gay men’s community. Men who have sex with other men are still the most “vulnerable” to monkeypox, according to the US health agency.

An earlier study had found that the monkeypox virus had spread through sex between gay and bisexual men in 95% of the cases.

CDC said the monkeypox virus is “not limited to any one community” while asserting that there were 2,593 confirmed monkeypox cases in the US. The WHO had said earlier that the virus “poses a real risk” to public health.

Reports claim Virginia health officials detected 64 monkeypox cases even as they ramped up testing and vaccine drive.

Monkeypox causes rashes and it belongs to the same family that causes smallpox and spreads from person-to-person.

The symptoms of the virus include fever, headache, muscle ache, tiredness and swollen lymph nodes. The virus has spread rapidly in Europe and United States after it was first detected in May. Although there is no specific treatment for the monkeypox virus, the CDC has recommended antivirals such as tecovirimat.

The US has approved two vaccines JYNNEOS and ACAM2000 to combat the virus. The European Medicines Agency had earlier approved the use of smallpox vaccine Imvanex to fight the monkeypox virus.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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