A case of the viral disease, which causes symptoms similar to smallpox including marks on the skin, has been confirmed in the U.S.
the agency was monitoring"a lot of people." The outlet claimed over 200 people in 27 states were being assessed.
Outside of Africa, Monkeypox has been documented in just four countries: the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel and Singapore.but are milder. The illness tends to start with fever, headache, muscle ache, and exhaustion. It also causes swollen lymph nodes, which smallpox does not. The rash is made up of marks on the skin, which tend to start as macules, or a flat, discoloured area of skin less than a centimeter wide.
The CDC states that monkeypox has been shown to cause death in as many as one in 10 people who catch it. The disease lasts for around two to four weeks.Monkeypox can be spread in multiple ways. One way is when the virus enters the body through broken skin. Other ways people can catch it is by breathing it in or getting it in their eyes, nose, or mouth. It can be spread from animals to humans as well as from humans to other humans.
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