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The number of cases of monkeypox in the United States has risen to 12, with a second case reported in Colorado.
In a press release from the state’s Department of Public Health and the Environment, the state assured on Friday that the risk of contracting the virus remains low.
“The Public Health Laboratory of the Department of Public Health and the Environment in Colorado has confirmed a second suspected case of monkeypox and is awaiting confirmation from the CDC,” he wrote. “The person infected with the virus is in close contact with a person known to the public as a suspected case of monkeypox and cooperates with state and local public health epidemiologists who investigate and notify people who may have been exposed. .
The case involved a young elderly man who sought care in the Denver area and was reportedly isolated and improving at home.
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The first suspected case of monkeypox was found in a man who recently traveled to Canada.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tracker shows two cases across the country, including two in Colorado, California. Florida and Utah.
An image created during an investigation into an outbreak of monkeypox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from 1996 to 1997 shows the hands of a patient with a monkeypox rash in this undated image, received from Reuters on 18 May 2022 (CDC / Brian WJ Mahy / Handout through REUTERS)
Washington, Massachusetts, New York and Virginia have one case each, according to the agency.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday that nearly 200 cases of monkeypox have been reported worldwide, with cases found in more than 20 countries not usually known to have outbreaks.
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Traditionally, the monkeypox virus is spread by touching or being bitten by infected wildlife in West and Central Africa.
However, the former head of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) emergency department told the Associated Press earlier this week that cases in Europe appear to have spread due to sexual activity by raves in Spain and Belgium.
Although not a sexually transmitted infection, it can be transmitted through both personal and sexual contact, with a significant proportion of reported cases occurring among gay and bisexual men.
Some smallpox vaccines and therapies are available to treat monkeypox – there are no specially developed monkeypox vaccines – and the WHO has proposed creating a stockpile for fair sharing.
The CDC said last week that there were doses of vaccine to prevent the monkeypox virus in the strategic national stockpile and that production would “accelerate” rapidly in the coming weeks.
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Symptoms of the virus – which is from the same family as smallpox – include fever, chills, rash and pain before the lesions develop.
Most patients recover within a few weeks without the need for hospitalization.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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