Juan José Badiola points out that the monkeypox virus has a transmission in which close contact between the infected person and the healthy person is needed. Infection occurs through fluids I by contagion of respiratory tract or saliva.
Especially dangerous, Badiola points out, is the contact with those pustules that have a high degree of infectivity. The first case recorded in this wave of infections it was in uk it was that of a Briton who had been to Nigeria. At the moment contagion is taking place between people who have not been to Africa. The great unknown is whether there may be community infection. “Now we will have to see everything with the suspects that are confirmed. Analyze case by case and see what relationship they may have had with each other.”
This sickness It began to be transmitted between animals and from there it passed to man. Initially it was a disease of certain species of primates and rodents (rats and squirrels). In Africa it has existed for a long time. Transmission in humans is self-limiting: It does not spread in the same way that Covid does.which is an expansive disease.
Professor Badiola advances that the smallpox vaccine does protect against this virus since they are viruses of the same family. “Smallpox was eradicated, it does not exist on the face of the earth and it is only kept in some specialized laboratories just in case it is needed for something,” he points out.
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