Belgium has become the first country in the world to announce a compulsory monkeypox quarantine as cases continue to spread rapidly. This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a monkeypox virion. "It tends to spread with really close contact and respiratory contact is less of an issue," he said. "We know it's transmitted by that close skin to skin contact – you can be infectious and that close droplet contact in a very sort of close prolonged way," Chant said. Symptoms may include skin lesions as well as flu-like symptoms such as fevers, headaches and shortness of breath.

Source: Daily Nation May 23, 2022 02:18 UTC