The palms of a monkeypox patient from Lodja, a town within the Katako-Kombe Health Zone, are seen during a health investigation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1997. [ANTARA/Brian W.J. Mahy/CDC/HO via Reuters/rwa/djo]
The public is advised not to worry too much about the case of monkeypox or monkeypox which was endemic in England in May 2022.
SuaraMalang.id – Professor of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Gadjah Mada University (FKH UGM) Prof Wayan Tunas Artama appealed to the public to be aware of unexpected possibilities.
However, he hopes that the public will not worry too much about the case monkey pox or monkeypox which had plagued the UK in May 2022.
“Education and increasing public awareness of risk factors can be used as the main strategy to reduce exposure to the virus smallpox monkeys,” he said, quoting Antara, Monday (6/6/2022).
According to him, prevention efforts can be done by avoiding direct contact with people with monkeypox symptoms.
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Symptoms of monkeypox in humans, he said, are similar to smallpox, including fever above 38.5 degrees Celsius, weakness, chills with or without sweating, sore throat and cough, aches, swollen lymph glands, and headache.
This is followed by the appearance of a well-defined macular-papular rash, vesicular, pustular, to scab lesions.
“The incubation period for monkeypox ranges from six to 13 days,” he said.
He explained that monkeypox is a zoonotic disease that is transmitted from animals to humans when consuming or having direct contact with infected animals.
Monkeypox, he said, was transmitted through various types of wildlife from rodents such as rats and squirrels to primates, namely monkeys and monkeys.
Transmission by direct contact, he said, can also occur between animals.
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