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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) lists the following signs and symptoms when suffering from this illness: rash and pustules around the body or confined to a small area, fever of 37.5 º C or higher, headache, backache, swollen lymph nodes, throat discomfort, cough and rapid breathing.

The monkeypox is endemic in West and Central Africa where it spreads primarily by rodents and occasionally infects monkeys. It is thought that due to the importation of Gambian rats, small mammals of this continent to the U.S. in April has been the cause of the origin of the disease in North America. On Wednesday, government officials banned the sale and distribution of these animals.

The monkeypox is much less communicable to humans than common smallpox and other diseases such as chickenpox or measles, as well as to be spreading the virus becomes less able to re-infect until he dies. Read the rest of this entry »

The Monkeypox is a disease caused by monkeypox virus, which belongs to the orthopoxvirus group among which include the smallpox virus (variola), vaccine (used in smallpox vaccine) and the cowpox virus. The monkeypox can spread between animals, these beings and between humans, although it is less communicable than smallpox.
This is a rare disease that occurs mainly in West and Central Africa and owes its name to that first found in 1958 in laboratory monkeys. Subsequently, blood tests of animals in Africa later found that some species of rodents also had, like rats, mice, rabbits and an African squirrel, which could be the common host for the disease. In 1970, first reported on human monkey pox. Read the rest of this entry »