Monkey pox what you need to know be careful

Monkeypox normally starts with flu-like symptoms, including fever, chills, a headache, and achy muscles. Unlike smallpox and chickenpox, swollen lymph nodes are also common.In later stages, people develop a rash, usually to the face, hands and arms, that can also affect genital areas.

"It starts as red spots and moves to vesicles - those are blister-type lesions that are a bit like chickenpox," Dr Hopkins said.

"They scab over and once the scabs have fallen off, they're no longer infectious."

The World Health Organisation held a live Q&A on Monday in which a panel of experts answered questions on the recent spike in monkeypox cases.

Dr Rosamund Lewis of the WHO Emergencies Programme, said monkeypox and COVID are different viruses that "spread in a different manner".

"The way it does spread is through close physical contact. People who have monkeypox develop a rash and that rash can be contagious."

The WHO experts said that scientists currently do not have an answer if the virus is mutating, but since it is a DNA virus, the mutation rate is much lower than for RNA viruses.

"So it's a very stable virus," Dr Lewis said. "We don't yet have evidence that there's a mutation in the virus itself."

The WHO said that anyone who comes into close physical contact with somebody with monkeypox is different to COVID in terms of how it is spread and that it is a "containable infection".

Monkeypox normally starts with flu-like symptoms, including fever, chills, a headache, and achy muscles. Unlike smallpox andhickenpox swollen lymph nodes are also common.

hickenpox swollen lymph nodes are also common.Monkeypox normally starts with flu-like symptoms, including fever, chills, a headache, and achy muscles. Unlike smallpox and chickenpox, swollen lymph nodes are also common.Monkeypox normally starts with flu-like symptoms, including fever, chills, a headache, and achy muscles. Unlike smallpox and chickenpox, swollen lymph nodes are also common.Monkeypox normally starts with flu-like symptoms, including fever, chills, a headache, and achy muscles. Unlike smallpox and chickenpox, swollen lymph nodes are also common.