Two have also been spotted in Colorado and Utah, and one each in Georgia, Massachusetts, Virginia and Washington. New York City has the most, with four infections, followed by California and Florida which have both detected three cases.
Stockpiles of a smallpox vaccine - which is believed to work against its close relative monkeypox - are also being made available to bolster immunity in close contacts of patients. But some turn severe with the fatality rate of the strain currently circulating in America at about one in 100.ĭoctors are currently offering patients antibiotics to help treat the infections. Most cases are mild and clear up on their own.
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Patients suffer a fever within 21 days of being infected, before developing a rash on their face that spreads to other areas and painful skin lesions. Monkeypox is native to West Africa and typically spreads via physically touching infectious skin lesions that can appear anywhere on the body. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed the three additional cases in its daily monkeypox dashboard update. Global health chiefs were caught off-guard by the outbreak outside West Africa - where it is native - with the virus now detected across more than two dozen nations with 600 confirmed infection, with 70 percent in Europe. To limit the spread, Dr Hans Kluge, from the Europe division the World Health Organization, called on people to reduce their number of sexual contacts Wednesday as he warned the virus may be difficult to contain. Most cases in America have been detected among gay and bisexual men, with health chiefs often linking them back to international travel.īut there are now growing signs the virus is spreading on American soil for the first time since at least 2003, with infections being spotted in 'close contacts' of cases.
In California, health chiefs said they their third case was also in Sacramento in a 'close contact' of the first patient who was diagnosed after returning from Europe. They included the infection in Georgia in a man from Atlanta who had a 'history of international travel' and a fourth in New York. tally rose to 18.Īnother three cases were spotted over the last 24 hours nationwide across the same number of states. Georgia has become the ninth state to detect a monkeypox infection, health chiefs revealed Tuesday night - as the U.S.