{"id":74393,"date":"2021-07-18T08:13:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T12:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=74393"},"modified":"2021-07-18T08:13:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T12:13:59","slug":"here-comes-the-pre-planned-monkeypox-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=74393","title":{"rendered":"Here comes the pre-planned “Monkeypox Scare”."},"content":{"rendered":"

CDC Scrambles After Rare Case Of Monkeypox Turns Up In Texas<\/strong><\/h1>\n

ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n

CDC health officials are now working vigorously to trace contacts of anyone directly exposed to a Dallas resident who recently returned to the US on a trip to Nigeria. The man is\u00a0now in isolation at a Dallas hospital after testing positive for an extremely rare disease known as Monkeypox<\/strong>\u00a0– said to be the first ever case of its kind in Texas.<\/p>\n

It’s also the first case seen inside the United States in two decades, with the last significant outbreak in 2003\u00a0including<\/a>\u00a047 reported human cases.\u00a0The infected person flew into Atlanta international airport on July 8, and then on to Dallas Love Field the next day.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Illustrative CDC file photo of Monkeypox infected person.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dallas health officials have declared there’s “no cause for alarm” given monkeypox has a lower fatality rate than smallpox. The two diseases are similar in that they can cause a severe rash which lasts for about a month. But the rash causing large swollen bumps all over the body appear particularly nasty and painful-looking in the case of Monkeypox.<\/p>\n

However monkeypox may not be as easily spreadable given it’s carried by rodents or other animals and human-to-human transmission is through bodily fluids and respiratory droplets.<\/p>\n

NBC details further of\u00a0the rare disease<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It usually takes\u00a0seven to 14 days after a person is exposed to the monkeypox virus to develop\u00a0symptoms<\/a><\/strong>, according to the CDC, which begin like many other viruses: fatigue, fever, headache, muscle aches.<\/em><\/p>\n

Within a week of symptom onset, an infected person develops a bumpy, raised rash that often spreads to the entire body.<\/strong>\u00a0The person is considered contagious until those raised bumps have scabbed over and fallen off.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s this lengthy period in which a person may not know they have it which may allow for a rapid undetected outbreak.<\/p>\n