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bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote:

But monkeypox no dey considered as a sexually transmitted
infection according to health authorities.

WHO expert Andy Seale say: “While we dey see some cases in men e
no be 'gay disease' as some pipo and social media don label am.
Anybodi fit contract dis disease through close contact.”

Sexually transmitted diseases need sexual contact to transmit
am, whereas “you no need to get sexual contact to transmit
monkeypox,” im tok.

E add am say relatively high number of men wey dey have sex wit
men wey don report di disease may be explained by di fact say
dis group dey more proactive wen dem see symptoms.

Seale say. "We sabi say [men who dey have sex wit men] if dem
spot an unusual rash, e dey likely say dem go want sort am out
quite quickly."

So, wetin we sabi about monkeypox?

At least 92 cases of monkeypox na im dem don confam outside
Africa for Europe, di US, Canada and Australia, according to di
World Health Organization (WHO).

Dem don dey investigate anoda 28 suspected cases for 12 kontris
wia monkeypox no usually dey endemic, di organisation tok.

But WHO experts don drag am say we no dey not see “new Covid”
and dem fit “contain” di current outbreak.

Wetin be monkeypox?
Monkeypox na disease wey monkeypox virus dey cause. No be di
same family as di smallpox virus, but e dey less severe.

Dem dey usually find di disease for Central Africa and West
Africa, and more specifically, for rainforest areas.

For di Democratic Republic of Congo, parts of wia plenty forest
dey, dem don report more than 1,200 cases dis year alone and 57
deaths recorded (as of 1 May 2022), according to di WHO.

Monkeypox in Africa
Wetin be symptoms of monkeypox?
Initial symptom na fever, headaches, swellings, back pain,
aching muscles.

Afta dis, rash go start and e dey start wit red areas on di
skin, then e go begin swell, then to vesicles or blisters, and
then to pustules, Dr Rosamund Lewis, di head of di WHO smallpox
secretariat tok.

After dat e fo begin to dry and scab, and di scab falls off, she
tok.

Di rash go dey scratch or e go dey painful, but Dr Amesh Adalja
of di Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security ifor di US say e
get better over time.

“Di rash go later reduce, and most pipo no dey get major
complications,” im tell BBC.

Di infection usually clears up on its own and last between 14
and 21 days.

How monkeypox dey spread?
Monkeypox fir spread to humans from one infected animal like a
monkey, a rat or squirrel.

Human-to-human transmission no really dey common, but e fit
happun wen someone dey in close contact wit infected pesin.

Dem dey transmit di infection through broken skin, di
respiratory tract, di eyes and di mouth.

Touching contaminated clothing, bedding or towels of pesin wit
di monkeypox rash fit also spread di disease.

Monkeypox Africa
Monkeypox fit kill?
Monkeypox na usually self-limited disease, according to di WHO,
but severe cases fit happun.

In recent times, di case fatality ratio don dey around 3-6%, but
di explanation for dis figure dey complex.

“Sometimes you see fatality rates up to 10%. But those one dey
hard to understand because many of dem na pipo wey dey resource
poor areas wia dem fit no get access to aggressive supportive
care,” Dr Adalja tok am.

E get two variants of di disease, known as di West African and
Central African - di current outbreak of monkeypox don dey
linked to di former.

“Di good news be say di West African version of dis monkeypox
virus dey less severe than di Central African one. So dat na di
good news say less pipo dey expected to develop serious illness
wit dis variant,” Professor Catherine Bennett, one
epidemiologist for Deakin University for Melbourne, tell di BBC.

Wetin be di treatment?
Treatment for monkeypox dey primarily focused on relieving
symptoms.

Antivirals dey available but dia effectiveness “dey depend on
very early detection of infection,” Prof Bennett tok.

Although e no get specific vaccine for di virus, di smallpox
vaccine na 85% effective against monkeypox, according to di WHO.

But Prof Bennett say we no go dey “look to vaccinate di whole
population” like Covid.

Some older people don collect vaccine from previous smallpox
vaccination programmes (dem eradicate di disease for 1980), but
dem fit use vaccines to protect healthcare workers wey dey work
in higher-risk settings.

Black and gay, you will pay.

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-61553847

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