What You Should Know About Mokeypox?

May 23, 2022

In today's era, we are bombarded with difficulties maintaining our safety, equipped with different illnesses, even viruses circulating us. We shall be able to prevent and protect ourselves from further endangering our own and even family and friends. Now, what exactly is a virus?

Viruses are microscopic infectious pathogens that contain genetic material, such as DNA and RNA. Like a healthy human being or animal, they must infect a host to reproduce and further infect others. The viruses are mostly known for their ability to cause disease, as they have majorly impacted outbreaks of illness and death throughout human history. Many of which have been studied and put into further research, but, unfortunately, specific outbreaks are still happening every once in a while. Some of which are the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the 2009 swine flu pandemic, and the COVID-19 pandemic, which was triggered by a coronavirus discovered in late 2019, are all recent examples of virus-driven outbreaks.

As we ponder the given acts of the past viruses like swine flu and ebola, we ought to put much more to have the necessities in demand for such time-sensitive cases like these virus-driven outbreaks. COVID-19 is one of the few cases in which the world has entirely and abruptly halted for a few months, even years for many, to which we saw how immensely hard the destruction it has given us. The decreasing economy and the highly driven poverty, and not to mention the deaths that it may have caused too many, unknowingly, we are still in this current situation battling our best and foremost foot to put an end to the given situation.

These Viruses are often damaging and very powerful in creating a solid bond that must take over a lot of healthy hosts to dominate, so everyone is urged to take care of themselves and put their strength into creating a barrier between them and the viruses. How exactly should you be ready and best to handle these cases? First and foremost, as with any action, these should be done with research. The virus that we are handling today is mainly seen and first handled by professionals to know how it can entirely affect the lives of commoners, thus giving out antidotes for them such as vaccines and other preventive states. Secondly, you are well known once you are ready for your battle. It would help if you bought the most preventive things for the virus. You are prepared to step out and still conquer your day while being safe and protected. This shows that before going out, you also have received your vaccine dosage, if needed, to fight off the virus circulating entirely. The given preventive measures are not just for a show outside, and so before care is done, you must also do after-care measures. The after-care measures are that you must maintain the cleanliness of your own home to fully protect the virus from the outside by making it a stable place in the insides of your own house. With that comes necessary teamwork, in which any of your house members must also carry a sense of engagement towards these preventive measures as you are all living under one roof and shall be capable of passing viruses from one another.

As we go into our third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, our situation has somewhat been given a break as the past few months have been silent when it comes to the given rise of active patients. Still, to our luck, there has been a newfound virus circulating the world, waiting to capture or, worst, dominate and put us into a more profound sense of a pandemic.

The new virus circulating in the Monkeypox is well diverse in afflicting itself into healthy hosts. Normally, the first-ever human case of the Monkeypox was seen in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the 1970s. What has the world pondered? The Monkeypox virus is mostly seen throughout Central Africa and West Africa and has now been seen in 3 countries outside the African Continent. As of the current standing, the Monkeypox virus is deemed incredibly dangerous as it has now circulated to 250 confirmed and suspected cases of the Monkeypox Virus and has been reported in over 16 countries. Despite all the struggles in containing the Monkeypox virus, we are still battling another pandemic.

What is Mokeypox?

Monkeypox is currently a disease caused by the given Monkeypox virus. It is a zoonotic disease in which it is seen that the Monkeypox virus is to have the opportunity to spread from animals to humans, thus having a greater chance of being viral, especially passing it down from human to human. As said before, the Monkeypox Virus is typically seen in Central Africa and West Africa as the tropical rainforests where the said animal hosts are to reside. When caught with the Monkeypox Virus, there are symptoms to look out for, which are typical, fever, intense headaches, muscle aches, back pain, low energy, swollen lymph nodes, and skin rashes or lesions.

Amidst these pandemic situations and new viruses, we must all take courage and strength to protect ourselves. Here is how you can fully protect yourself and your family from the Monkeypox Virus.

You are to limit your contact with people who have been suspected or confirmed with the monkeypox virus – this is to limit the human-to-human connection of the virus jumping off to each other. If one has been in physical contact, you are to self-isolate. Moreover, if there are any, cover any skin lesions. Another staple is always to put on a mask when speaking to dealing with people, in general, to eradicate the chances of being airborne fully. Of course, as anything goes – to always disinfect, viruses are often killed with disinfectants like alcohol and thoroughly washing your hands, thus keeping your home safe and clean.

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