Monkeypox first we're going to think about how this disease spreads how it's transmitted it comes from close contact with animals or humans it originally comes from animals the reservoir is an animal it's a zoonotic disease it's spreading respiratory droplets so we breathe it out so you can breathe it in through other people's exhaled air.
It can be transmitted from the lesions that mean the spots it can also be transmitted by close direct skin to skin contact especially if there's some broken skin it can also be transmitted in body fluids and we know that some of the transmission at the moment occurs is occurring in the male homosexual community as uh the mucus membranes component are there indicates it can also be spread through contaminated materials that bed lining clothing towels anything else like that and thermite is a physical object like a surface on which the virus can sit now although the virus has been spreading in the homosexual male homosexual community at the moment it's perfectly capable of spreading anywhere that's just where it started off let's now go on and look at now this information on clinical features comes from the NHS and the world health organization.
The incubation period is 6 to 13 days that's from when someone is first exposed to the virus up until the onset of clinical features and there's prodromal lymph adenopathy now the prodrome is when someone starts feeling ill before they have any specific features and lymphadenopathy is swelling in the lymph glands such as may occur in the neck under the chin in the armpits or in the groin the lymphadenopathy that's prodromal.
when the person just starts to feel ill that comes on earl then there's an acute illness with fever 3 degrees centigrade which is 101 degrees Fahrenheit and of course, when you have these body temperatures the person really feels quite ill they have chills because when the body temperature is going up the person feels cold and they'll seek warmth they'll try and put on blankets and keep warm usually there's quite a bad headache there's muscle pain and muscle aches back pain muscle aches myalgia and intenser this term here means weakness there is a general weakness and tiredness followed by one to three days later the let's look at the rash here we see an example of the spots caused by monkeypox they can occur on any part of the body here we see another picture of the characteristic rash in monkeypox in a patient in Africa where the virus is endemic in certain areas now this picture actually shows the progression of a single spot so it starts with this raised area become.
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