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2024 Mpox Outbreak - for anyone unfamiliar with monkey pox:

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BACKGROUND *VIRAL INFECTIOUS DISEASE that CAUSES a FEBRILE ILLNESS with CHARACTERISTIC SKIN RASH & SWOLLEN LYMPH NODES ~ SYMPTOMS SIMILAR to SMALLPOX but CLINICALLY LESS SEVERE DISCOVERY in 1958 with 2 OUTBREAKS of POX-LIKE DISEASE in COLONIES of MONKEYS KEPT for RESEARCH FIRST HUMAN CASE REPORTED in DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO in 1970 CAUSES * INFECTION with MONKEYPOX VIRUS ~ CONTACT with INFECTED PERSON or ANIMAL - ROPE SQUIRRELS, TREE SQUIRRELS, GAMBIAN POUCHED RATS, DORMICE, MONKEYS - CLOSE CONTACT with INFECTED SKIN LESIONS BODILY FLUIDS RESPIRATORY DROPLETS - CONTAMINATED OBJECTS (CLOTHING. TOWELS, BEDDING) - MOTHER to FETUS via PLACENTA or DURING/ AFTER CHILDBIRTH DIAGNOSIS * PCR TESTING ~ ANTIBODY TESTING INCONCLUSIVE SIGNS & SYMPTOMS * INCUBATION PERIOD: 6 - 14 DAYS → CAN RANGE from 5 - 21 DAYS * INITIAL: ~ FEBRILE ILLNESS: FEVER, CHILLS, INTENSE HEADACHE, SWELLING of LYMPH NODES. BACK PAIN, MUSCLE ACHES, LACK of ENERGY * WITHIN 3 DAYS of FEVER: ~ CHARACTERISTIC RASH: FLAT RED BASE that EVOLVES into SLIGHTLY RAISED FIRM LESIONS ~ LESIONS EVENTUALLY CHANGE to VESICLES FILLED with YELLOW FLUID, then CRUST OVER & SLOUGH OFF TREATMENT * CURRENTLY NO SPECIFIC TREATMENTS * SEVERE ILLNESS or RISK of COMPLICATION: ~ ANTIVIRALS: TECOVIRIMAT (TPOXX), CIDOFOVIR (VISTIDE), BRINCIDOFOVIR (TEMBEXA), VACCINIA IMMUNE GLOBULIN INTRAVENOUS (VIGIV) *SMALLPOX VACCINE ~ 85% PROTECTION from GETTING MONKEYPOX ~ VACCINATION AFTER EXPOSURE MAY HELP PREVENT GETTING or REDUCE SEVERITY CHARACTERISTIC RASH/LESIONS COSMOSIS from ELSEVIER

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