Monkeypox in 5 minutes

Rapid review of essential facts on monkeypox

Monkeypox

Key facts

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sh...

Cases around the world, therefore sped for past few weeks

Severe cases occur more commonly among children

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022...

Transmission

Contact with an infected animal or human

Respiratory droplets

Lesions

Skin contact

Broken skin

Bodily fluids

Mucous membranes

Contaminated materials, bed linens, clothing, towels

Fomites

NHSE High Consequence Infection Diseases (airborne) Network / WHO

Incubation, 6 to 13 days

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/mo...

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/monkeypox/

https://www.who.int/emergencies/disea...

https://www.who.int/emergencies/outbr...

An acute illness with fever more than 38.3⁰C (101⁰F)

Chills

Intense headache

Prodromal lymphadenopathy

Back pain and muscle aches

Myalgia and intense asthenia

Followed one to three days later by a progressively developing rash,

often beginning on the face (most dense),

and then spreading elsewhere on the body,

including soles of feet and palms of hands.

Symptomatic, then rash, 1 to 5 days after first symptoms

The rash changes and goes through different stages before finally forming a scab, which later falls off.

(can look like chickenpox or syphilis)

Starts as raised spots, forming into fluid filled blisters, then scabs which fall off

Lesions can be very itchy or painful