For the first time a case of monkey pox in Singapore is now occurred. The viral disease is transmitted from rodents and primates to humans. Also with each other can infect people.
A traveler had the Virus at the 28. April from Nigeria to Singapore brought it in. He had been infected previously likely to be at a wedding at Bush meat, according to the Ministry of health. The authorities in the Southeast Asian city-state have identified at least 23 people who had contact with the patient. These are being monitored as a precaution for 21 days. The threat of an epidemic is low. You should know about monkey pox:
How can you get the smallpox with Monkeys?
Similar to the right-pox, can be infected by droplet or smear infection. However, the monkey pox Virus is much less infectious than the flu. Often, people in Africa get when they are bitten by animals, or scratched, or if infected Wild eat. Especially great is the contagion risk, if an Infected already, a rash has formed.
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Where are the monkey-pox?
Also if you have hot monkey pox virus, are the causative agents but, above all, in rodents in Central and West Africa, such as in the case of rats, or squirrels. And also, in primates, the Virus is often found.
The monkey-pox belong to the same virus genus as smallpox.
They’re like the people – in the case of the rodents, or with each other. His name has get the Virus, because it was first found in 1958 in a group of cynomolgus monkeys in a laboratory in Copenhagen. The monkeys had been selected as experimental animals. You may have been in captivity of other animals from Africa infected. Cynomolgus monkeys do not come from Southeast Asia, where the Virus occurs so far in the wild.
There’s monkey pox, also on other continents?
If the monkey-pox in other countries have come about after the UK and Israel, could the infection be contained quickly. Also in Singapore, the chances are good, Skip the monkey pox virus to prevent wild animals. Only in the USA the Virus in 2003 spread among Prairie dogs in five States of the Midwest. The Virus was likely to come with a load of about 800 small animals should be sold as Pets, into the country. Including tree were squirrels, porcupines, and dormice. It is believed that the original bearer of the Virus was a Gambia-Riesenhamserratte. At least 37 people were infected in the result in the rodents, and American Prairie dogs.
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A with monkey-pox-infected child in Liberia. In about ten percent of the cases, the disease leads to death.
How to speak monkey pox?
The disease is initially difficult to distinguish from the flu: The first symptoms are fatigue, headache, dizziness, fever, muscle aches, chills and swollen lymph nodes. Only then it comes to a skin rash, which develops into the typical pox and pustules on the skin. The rash is similar to the appearance of the smallpox. In most cases, the immune system successfully fights against the disease and after five weeks the complaints. The monkey pox, however, can run in one of ten cases, even fatal.
How can you protect yourself against monkey pox?
Doctors believe that a smallpox vaccination also protects relatively well against monkey pox. Although the monkey pox Virus is not directly related to the smallpox Virus, both smallpox-types of the same virus genus. They resemble, therefore, far enough so that the immune system responds to infection. There may be more people are now and again susceptible to infection, because the global mass smallpox vaccinations were ended in the 1980s, after the smallpox were virtually eradicated.
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What is the other pox-viruses are there?
There are a variety of specific smallpox virus (orthopox viruses) that can infect animals, such as horses, Buffalo, camels or goats. The most common including the vaccinia Virus. It can be transmitted as a zoonosis from animals to humans. Vaccinia virus belong to pox the same virus genus as the smallpox and Monkey. Earlier the human being has become infected directly during milking. They are usually transmitted from cattle to rodents, and from this via the detour of cats, or even directly – for example, of “love rats” on the people. The vaccinia Virus can also pose a risk to zoo animals. In particular, elephants and Nashorner can die from it. Other rare types of smallpox viruses infect about raccoons, voles, or skunks. Chickenpox, on the other hand, belong to the orthopox virus, but herpes virus.
People with smallpox vaccination have a relatively good protection against cowpox. Chicken pox on the other hand belong to the orthopox virus, but herpes virus.
Pets infection: a tiger or wild kitty?
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Like the plague! – If animals make you sickCarriers of the plague
In fleas, the health authorities of two counties in Arizona find: Yersinia pestis – the causative agent of the bubonic plague. The Flea can transmit the bacteria from Rodent to humans. The people there need to leave now, for special caution: from wild animals and your Pets with drugs against the parasites protect.
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Like the plague! – If animals make you sickNot entirely unusual
In the U.S., plague cases are rare, each year, seven infections in humans but are not, on average. Only in June had been infected in New Mexico with three people. Medically it has lost the plague in developed countries, their terror. With antibiotics they can be treated. It remains, however, if left untreated, is often fatal.
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Like the plague! – If animals make you sickCaution, even if they look cute!
In Yosemite national Park in 2015, two of the visitors were ill of the plague. Transfer the bacteria were ends likely to be of such a sweet strip, or of squirrels. In mid-August, the Park authority locked in a campsite, after the two dead squirrels plague pathogen have been found. Worldwide every year there are approximately 300 influenza cases – the most in Madagascar, the DR Congo and Peru.
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Like the plague! – If animals make you sickNot only the plague is dangerous
There are many other diseases that can be transmitted from animals to humans – called zoonoses. Especially small children, elderly and sick people and Pregnant women are at risk due to infections with viruses, bacteria, fungi, or parasites. Therefore, Pets should be regularly treated with medication.
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Like the plague! – If animals make you sickFever, thanks to kitty
Cats and dogs – the best friends of the people – can, for example, transfer the bacteria “Campylobacter jejuni”, the diarrhea caused. Cats also provide different Bartonella bacteria, which can cause fever and inflammation. And toxoplasmosis, triggered by Toxoplasma gondii, can cause a pregnancy to dangerous complications.
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Like the plague! – If animals make you sickRoute of infection in several animals
A viral infection, which occurs almost only in the countryside, the cowpox. The mice that live on Pastures, the virus from the feces of cattle. Then the cats eat the mice and play in the evening with the people. It puts in Rumble, a scratch of the person is infected.
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Like the plague! – If animals make you sickSick by creep animals
Amphibians and reptiles, by contrast, are intended to be used for a variety of sporadic Salmonella infections in their owners responsible. Around eleven percent of these infections in patients under the age of 21 go back, according to a study on animals such as iguanas, lizards, snakes or frogs.
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Like the plague! – If animals make you sickParrots disease
The parrot disease is a zoonotic disease, which can be especially for children and immunocompromised individuals dangerous. Trigger a chlamydia-art. it is especially true of Parrots, budgies and pigeons. The person infected is usually over the dried droppings of the animals. The is stirred up with the dust in the air.
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Like the plague! – If animals make you sickPrevent disease
For healthy people the risk is low, as long as the animals are vaccinated and wormed and Hygiene rules were observed, emphasize the researchers. Nevertheless, everyone should wash up after a long caress of the hands, or when Cleaning the cage or Terrarium gloves.
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Like the plague! – If animals make you sickStabbing Risk
But not only our Pets, are contagious. So it can happen, for example, that the most dangerous animals in the tropics were accidentally with trade, mostly on ships, even in temperate zones. The Asian tiger mosquito transmits, for example, the Dengue-fever.
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Like the plague! – If animals make you sickReynard The Fox
Up to the year 2008 there were in Germany: rabies, transmitted mainly by foxes. Through large-scale immunisation campaigns, but this dangerous disease is eradicated. For people who had become infected with the rabies virus, ended in the disease. Germany is today considered to be rabies-free.
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Like the plague! – If animals make you sickThe all-clear
In General, the researchers stress outweigh the positive effects, which brings the relationship to an animal. As small children, growing up with a dog or a bird to become ill, less likely to have allergies and respiratory infections. In addition, dogs ensure that we move more – and also for the Psyche of our animal friends are well.