Smallpox of the monkeys: 35 thousand cases in a week. WHO: "Infections up 20%"

About

cases of

from

, with

.

About 7,500 were recorded last week,

than the previous week when the increase was 20%.

This was reported by the director general of the

s,

during the press conference of the World Health Organization.

Most of the cases from

and

. 

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Monkeypox: the origin of the disease, how it is infected and how long the incubation period lasts - Health & Wellness

Various symptoms, transmitted by droplets and lesions (ANSA)

in some patients

, making it more

of the virus.

Fear has been circulating in the scientific community since the beginning of the epidemic, now new clues come from an investigation conducted at the

of Paris and published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

French doctors tested rectal swabs from 200 people who regularly checked for other infectious diseases in the health facility for monkeypox.

Of these, 13 tested positive for monkeypox even though they never showed any characteristic signs of the disease.

Two of them, in the days following the tests, had manifestations of the disease, but the remaining 11 remained completely asymptomatic.

It is not the first time that cases of asymptomatic people positive for monkeypox have emerged: at the end of June, for example, three cases had been reported by researchers at a Belgian clinic in a study in the Lancet.

To date, the extent of the phenomenon is not clear.

Furthermore "

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Monkeypox, possible human-to-dog transmission - Science & Technique

The monkeypox virus could be transmitted from humans to dogs: a first suspected case was documented in Paris, in a four-year-old greyhound (ANSA)