Burst! New York enters a state of disaster emergency, the new epidemic spreads to 20,000 people worldwide

San Francisco also declares a state of emergency

The global monkeypox epidemic has reached a critical point of death!

In the past two days, there have been reports of three deaths of monkeypox patients in Europe and the United States. This is also the world's first non-African-related death that occurred in the monkeypox outbreak that started in May this year, except for the origin of monkeypox in Africa. .

In addition to these three exceptions, Africa has reported 66 deaths this year, but many experts and scholars believe that the deaths of African monkeypox patients may be related to their poor medical conditions, and the first death in developed countries is terrifying!

On July 28, local time, the Spanish Ministry of Health reported its first death from monkeypox; on the evening of July 29, Spain reported its second death, while Brazil also reported its first death.

Within 2 days, the virus instantly claimed 3 lives.

As far as relevant reports are concerned, the first patient to die in Spain was a man who eventually died from infection-related encephalitis. At present, the cause of death of the second deceased has not been released.

Brazil said the country's first death was suffering from a serious illness and was hospitalized for cancer treatment. Due to low immunity and suffering from various complications, he eventually died.

Although the health departments of the two countries have repeatedly emphasized: "People do not need to panic, the fatality rate of monkeypox is very low." But perhaps, we have been underestimating this virus in our knowledge in the past.

When monkeypox first broke out, all experts and scholars said that monkeypox is much less infectious than the new crown, and its transmission is mainly through close contact with infected people, animals or objects. Through body fluids, pus, blood and other media, it can enter the human body by contacting skin lesions, respiratory tract, eyes, mouth and nose.

And in the past, it was believed that the fatality rate of monkeypox was very low, ranging from 1% to 10% for different populations and areas with different medical conditions; But for children and young children, the death rate can reach as high as 13%.

Many people think that as long as you are sexually safe, you are not at high risk for homosexuality, and you are vaccinated against monkeypox or smallpox, the virus is far from us.

But now, whether it is the speed of the monkeypox epidemic, or the tragic death before our eyes, it is getting closer and closer to our lives, and it is no longer a vague academic concept in the news.

No one would have imagined that when the wave of the new crown epidemic is still unsettled, the monkeypox virus will rapidly develop into a new round of global epidemics within 3 months, and was released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on July 24. Level warning, officially declared a public health emergency of international concern.

Up to now, 79 countries around the world have reported a total of 22,485 confirmed cases this year, of which 22,141 patients from 72 countries were infected after the outbreak in May, and monkeypox cases have never been reported before, which can be easily understood. Not related to previous monkeypox outbreaks in Africa.

In less than 3 months, it has spread to 72 countries and more than 20,000 people. The power of monkeypox has long been underestimated.

The United States, the good neighbor of the Canadian people, is now in dire straits.

San Francisco, the location of Silicon Valley, has raised the alarm yesterday, and the city will officially enter a state of emergency for the monkeypox epidemic from August 1. San Francisco has reported 261 cases, accounting for 32.7% of the state's total.

New York state, with a population of 20 million, declared a state of disaster emergency Friday night.

"Monkeypox has become an imminent danger across the state," the health official said. "We will maximize the use of federal and state funding and resources to respond to and prevent the outbreak."

In fact, the monkeypox epidemic is not just a crisis in a certain city or a certain state, but a knife hanging over the United States. According to the latest statistics, the total number of confirmed cases of monkeypox in the United States has reached 4,639, which has surpassed Spain to become the country with the most serious monkeypox epidemic in the world except Africa.

The United States is in trouble, and Canada, which is close at hand, is also uneasy.

After all, the current monkeypox epidemic can no longer be summed up simply by "the spread of homosexuality" - pregnant women and children have been infected.

On July 22, the United States reported 2 cases of monkeypox infection in children; on July 23, the United States reported the first case of monkeypox infection in a pregnant woman; on July 28, Brazil reported 3 cases of monkeypox infection in children.

How these patients contracted monkeypox is still puzzling.

And many infected people's symptoms are getting worse.

A monkeypox patient in Texas, USA shared his experience with the infection. He was covered in herpes, festering and oozing pus, and was in excruciating pain.

The accompanying description of another related case reads: "The patient's body was festering due to monkeypox, and other diseases were infected. Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus dysgalactiae caused secondary bacterial infection of the penis, and the genitals were swollen like a pus. balloons."

An infected person in Toronto, Canada described that he had a high fever at first, and his whole body was unconscious, and he could hardly get out of bed for two consecutive days.

A few days after the diagnosis, the skin all over my body seemed to be electrocuted, and I couldn't sleep for almost 30 hours. It felt like a needle prick when I turned over, and I even bit the towel to endure the pain.

These descriptions are far more severe than the symptoms described by veterinarians in the United States in 2003 who contracted animals from contact with animals. The vet said at the time that he felt like a combination of flu, Covid-19 and chicken pox.

Seeing that the monkeypox epidemic is in full swing, there are already signs of not losing the new crown. Perhaps what we can do now is to prepare for another injection of monkeypox vaccine.

When I think about it, I feel tired. I thought that 2022 will be the end of the new crown epidemic. Who would have expected monkeypox to kill again, when will we be able to return to our old life!

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