monkey pox not only attack people gay. This infectious disease can attack anyone.
Monkeypox is a disease contagious caused by a rare viral infection Monkeypox. This disease causes flu-like symptoms such as: fever accompanied by a rash.
This disease is transmitted through close contact, touching the skin or with open sores that ooze fluid, to sexual intercourse.
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Since being detected in non-endemic countries in May, the disease has often been associated with the homosexual community. Most of the cases happen to the gay group.
Even so, the dermatologist and dermatologist RSPI Sulianti Saroso Ni Luh Putu Pitawati said that everyone was at risk of contracting it. He said, there are five groups of people who are most vulnerable to contracting monkeypox.
“Everyone can be infected, but there are some groups who are most at risk,” said Ni Luh in a broadcast on Radio Kesehatan RI, some time ago.
The following groups are most at risk of being exposed to monkeypox besides gay people.
1. People with low immunity
The immune system becomes a fortress that protects the body from various threats of disease. People with low immune systems are certainly at risk of being exposed to monkeypox.
For example, people who suffer from autoimmune diseases or are in low immunity conditions.
In that condition, the virus is easier to enter and the body’s defense system can’t fight perfectly.
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Illustration. Toddlers are a group at risk of monkeypox besides gay people. (tookapic/Pixabay)- – |
Young children are susceptible to viruses Monkeypox. The reason is the child’s immune system which is generally not fully formed.
3. Elderly
Just like children, the elderly are also a risk group for monkeypox. They generally have low immunity levels.
4. Pregnant and breastfeeding mothers
Pregnant and lactating women have low immune systems. This makes them vulnerable to exposure to viruses and bacteria.
5. Likes to eat wild animal meat
Some people like to eat wild animal meat. However, the habit puts them at risk of exposure to monkeypox.
Transmission can occur from animals that are consumed. As is known, animals are also one of the carriers of the virus that causes monkeypox.
“We, able to, do not know, whether the animal is safe from the virus. Because of this virus too, able toit started with wild animals,” said Ni Luh.
Monkeypox was first discovered in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since then, monkeypox has become an epidemic in a number of African countries.
In May last year, monkeypox was detected again in a non-endemic country, England. From there, monkeypox continued to spread widely to a number of other countries.
Until now, the virus Monkeypox has infected more than 23,000 people worldwide. As many as 80 countries have reported monkeypox.
So far, monkeypox is attacking gays a lot. However, this disease cannot simply be stigmatized with other homosexual and LGBT groups.
(tim/asr)
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