• Daily Illinois
  • About
  • Contact
  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • DMCA
  • Sitemap
  • Write For Us
Thursday, February 2, 2023
Daily illinois - USA | News, Sports & Updates Web Magazine
  • Covid-19
  • News
    • All
    • Business
    • Education
    • Politics
    • Sports
    • World
    Incorporate effective visual aids.

    Tips for Making a Custom Presentation 02/01

    A Guide to Quick Loans

    Speedy Solutions: A Guide to Quick Loans

    Benefits of SEN in education

    Benefits of SEN in education — why children need it

    Environmentally Friendly Cryptocurrencies

    The Best Sustanable & Environmentally Friendly Cryptocurrencies 2022

    Build Brand awareness via Organic Social Media

    Build Brand awareness via Organic Social Media

    Digital Marketing Internship Program

    Things To Know Before Joining Digital Marketing Internship Program

    How to save your kids from high school nudity

    How To Save Your Kids From High School Nudity

    Social recruiting for B2B companies

    Social Recruiting for B2B Companies

    Data Protection in the Employment Contract

    Data Protection in the Employment Contract

    motivate colleagues

    How Can You Motivate Colleagues?

  • Science & Tech
    • All
    • Ai - Artificial Intelligence
    • Apps
    • Mobile
    What is the Structure of a Mobile App

    What is the Structure of a Mobile App?

    Limit the Damage in an Emergency

    Logging strategy: Limit the Damage in an Emergency

    Dev Ops Future And Free Platform To Learn

    Dev Ops Future And Free Platform To Learn

    Does discord notify you when you leave a group chat?

    Does discord notify you when you leave a group chat?

    Redirects and Benefits of it

    What Are Redirects And Benefits Of It

    Data Protection Officer Tasks

    Data Protection Officer Tasks

    How to Get a Tinder Refund in Less Than Two Minutes

    How to Get a Tinder Refund in Less Than Two Minutes

    How To Send Pictures on Tinder

    How To Send Pictures on Tinder

    How To Change Age on Tinder

    How To Change Age on Tinder

    What is Automated Processing

    What is Automated Processing?

  • Entertainment
    • All
    • Gaming
    • Movie
    • Music
    See a show on Broadway

    Ideas For Your Bucket List In 2023

    CBD DISPOSABLE VAPE PEN 1000MG

    CBD DISPOSABLE VAPE PEN 1000MG

    What Are The Benefits Of Using HWID Spoofer For Valorant

    What Are The Benefits Of Using HWID Spoofer For Valorant?

    Game studios are shelving play-to-earn games

    Game studios are shelving play-to-earn games

    Battle Infinity

    4,400% return! This coin could still increase its price a hundredfold

    Christine Settingsgaard sits in her yard on Wednesday, Sept 14, 2022, in Barrington. Settingsgaard was lured into sophisticated financial scam this summer via a man she met on Hinge, and “lost everything.”

    The case of the vanishing deposit – Chicago Tribune

    NFL Week 4 takeaways – Lessons, big questions for every game

    Live: Miley Cyrus, Def Leppard join Taylor Hawkins tribute

    Live: Miley Cyrus, Def Leppard join Taylor Hawkins tribute

    'Catherine Called Birdy' review: Lena Dunham's instant teen classic

    ‘Catherine Called Birdy’ review: Lena Dunham’s instant teen classic

    Home Depot Skeleton Alternatives

    Home Depot Skeleton Alternatives

    • F95zone
  • Lifestyle
    • All
    • Fashion
    • Food
    • Travel
    New Trendy Bodysuit Outfit Ideas 2023

    New Trendy Bodysuit Outfit Ideas 2023

    How Do You Style A Simple Top

    How Do You Style Your Simple Tops?

    Great Ocean Road

    6 Things you can Experience along the Great Ocean Road

    So You Want to Be a Chef Here’s What You Need to Know

    So You Want to Be a Chef? Here’s What You Need to Know

    waterdrop reverse osmosis water filter

    Your Comprehensive Guide To The Tankless Reverse Osmosis System

    Best vegan gift ideas for every budget

    Best vegan gift ideas for every budget

    Things You Should Consider When Traveling

    Things You Should Consider When Traveling

    The complete guide for buying Water Purifiers

    The complete guide for buying Water Purifiers

    The Most Techy Smartwatches in 2022

    The Most Techy Smartwatches in 2022

    Personal Grooming Tips for Women to look well groomed

    Personal Grooming Tips for Women to look well groomed

33 °f
Chicago
35 ° Sat
35 ° Sun
35 ° Mon
37 ° Tue
No Result
View All Result
Daily illinois - USA | News, Sports & Updates Web Magazine
  • Covid-19
  • News
    • All
    • Business
    • Education
    • Politics
    • Sports
    • World
    Incorporate effective visual aids.

    Tips for Making a Custom Presentation 02/01

    A Guide to Quick Loans

    Speedy Solutions: A Guide to Quick Loans

    Benefits of SEN in education

    Benefits of SEN in education — why children need it

    Environmentally Friendly Cryptocurrencies

    The Best Sustanable & Environmentally Friendly Cryptocurrencies 2022

    Build Brand awareness via Organic Social Media

    Build Brand awareness via Organic Social Media

    Digital Marketing Internship Program

    Things To Know Before Joining Digital Marketing Internship Program

    How to save your kids from high school nudity

    How To Save Your Kids From High School Nudity

    Social recruiting for B2B companies

    Social Recruiting for B2B Companies

    Data Protection in the Employment Contract

    Data Protection in the Employment Contract

    motivate colleagues

    How Can You Motivate Colleagues?

  • Science & Tech
    • All
    • Ai - Artificial Intelligence
    • Apps
    • Mobile
    What is the Structure of a Mobile App

    What is the Structure of a Mobile App?

    Limit the Damage in an Emergency

    Logging strategy: Limit the Damage in an Emergency

    Dev Ops Future And Free Platform To Learn

    Dev Ops Future And Free Platform To Learn

    Does discord notify you when you leave a group chat?

    Does discord notify you when you leave a group chat?

    Redirects and Benefits of it

    What Are Redirects And Benefits Of It

    Data Protection Officer Tasks

    Data Protection Officer Tasks

    How to Get a Tinder Refund in Less Than Two Minutes

    How to Get a Tinder Refund in Less Than Two Minutes

    How To Send Pictures on Tinder

    How To Send Pictures on Tinder

    How To Change Age on Tinder

    How To Change Age on Tinder

    What is Automated Processing

    What is Automated Processing?

  • Entertainment
    • All
    • Gaming
    • Movie
    • Music
    See a show on Broadway

    Ideas For Your Bucket List In 2023

    CBD DISPOSABLE VAPE PEN 1000MG

    CBD DISPOSABLE VAPE PEN 1000MG

    What Are The Benefits Of Using HWID Spoofer For Valorant

    What Are The Benefits Of Using HWID Spoofer For Valorant?

    Game studios are shelving play-to-earn games

    Game studios are shelving play-to-earn games

    Battle Infinity

    4,400% return! This coin could still increase its price a hundredfold

    Christine Settingsgaard sits in her yard on Wednesday, Sept 14, 2022, in Barrington. Settingsgaard was lured into sophisticated financial scam this summer via a man she met on Hinge, and “lost everything.”

    The case of the vanishing deposit – Chicago Tribune

    NFL Week 4 takeaways – Lessons, big questions for every game

    Live: Miley Cyrus, Def Leppard join Taylor Hawkins tribute

    Live: Miley Cyrus, Def Leppard join Taylor Hawkins tribute

    'Catherine Called Birdy' review: Lena Dunham's instant teen classic

    ‘Catherine Called Birdy’ review: Lena Dunham’s instant teen classic

    Home Depot Skeleton Alternatives

    Home Depot Skeleton Alternatives

    • F95zone
  • Lifestyle
    • All
    • Fashion
    • Food
    • Travel
    New Trendy Bodysuit Outfit Ideas 2023

    New Trendy Bodysuit Outfit Ideas 2023

    How Do You Style A Simple Top

    How Do You Style Your Simple Tops?

    Great Ocean Road

    6 Things you can Experience along the Great Ocean Road

    So You Want to Be a Chef Here’s What You Need to Know

    So You Want to Be a Chef? Here’s What You Need to Know

    waterdrop reverse osmosis water filter

    Your Comprehensive Guide To The Tankless Reverse Osmosis System

    Best vegan gift ideas for every budget

    Best vegan gift ideas for every budget

    Things You Should Consider When Traveling

    Things You Should Consider When Traveling

    The complete guide for buying Water Purifiers

    The complete guide for buying Water Purifiers

    The Most Techy Smartwatches in 2022

    The Most Techy Smartwatches in 2022

    Personal Grooming Tips for Women to look well groomed

    Personal Grooming Tips for Women to look well groomed

33 °f
Chicago
35 ° Sat
35 ° Sun
35 ° Mon
37 ° Tue
No Result
View All Result
Daily illinois - USA | News, Sports & Updates Web Magazine
No Result
View All Result
Home Covid-19

5 Monkeypox Myths We Need To Stop Believing

by Staff Writer
December 5, 2022
in Covid-19, Health
Reading Time: 5 mins read
0
5 Monkeypox Myths We Need To Stop Believing
492
SHARES
1.4k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

As monkeypox cases increase across the country, so do various misconceptions about how the disease spreads, who it infects and how deadly it is.

Myths about infectious diseases can have a major impact on public health efforts. In the past, such misunderstandings have caused people to underestimate their risk, avoid taking precautions that help prevent transmission, and choose not to get vaccinated.

Related posts

What is a dress that goes straight down

What Is A Dress That Goes Straight Down

January 18, 2023
How Do You Style A Simple Top

How Do You Style Your Simple Tops?

December 28, 2022

One of the worst things that people can do during a public health emergency is fuel myths that cause fear and panic, according to Dr. Jorge Salinas, a hospital epidemiologist at Stanford University. Clear and accurate communication can help people understand their personal risk and feel empowered to take protective steps.

“We need to stay with the science,” Salinas said.

Here, HuffPost sets the record straight and corrects some of the monkeypox misinformation that has circulated recently.

Myth: Monkeypox Only Spreads Through Sex

Though monkeypox is not considered a sexually transmitted infection, it primarily spreads through close, intimate contact. But the virus doesn’t only spread through sex.

Monkeypox transmission requires prolonged, often skin-to-skin contact — which you can have with or without sex. Hugging and cuddling, or even touching bedding and other items that were used by someone with monkeypox, can put you at risk.

“Is sex required, obligatory, mandatory to acquire monkeypox? The answer is no,” Salinas said.

Myth: Monkeypox Is Just Like COVID-19

While COVID-19 can easily be contracted through aerosols in the air, getting monkeypox is more difficult, said Dr. Katherine Baumgarten, the medical director of infection control and prevention at Ochsner Health. Monkeypox requires that prolonged, close contact with an infected person’s skin lesions, large respiratory droplets or contaminated objects.

“This is not COVID-19. This is not a highly infectious, highly transmissible respiratory virus,” Salinas added.

Salinas doesn’t think monkeypox is capable of causing the same havoc that COVID-19 did. Pandemic viruses tend to be highly transmissible respiratory viruses that can spread in the pre-symptomatic phase, which makes them hard to control.

That said, monkeypox is still a public health problem, and you should take precautions.

“I’m not saying monkeypox is easy to control, but it is not as difficult — it’s not in the same ballpark — as respiratory viruses,” Salinas said.

Myth: Monkeypox Only Affects A Certain Population

Monkeypox is primarily spreading among men who have sex with men, along with nonbinary individuals and transgender women who have sex with men. The risk is greatest among people with multiple sexual partners, but anyone who is intimately exposed to monkeypox can contract it.

The virus is not selective about who it infects, Baumgarten said. Instead, it really just has to do with the mode of transmission.

Monkeypox seems to proliferate within this particular social network because it has more opportunities to spread through close contact. But this doesn’t mean that the virus can’t get into other circles. In fact, it likely already did but then burned out before it had the chance to spread further.

“This virus can be transmitted from person to person through close skin-to-skin contact, no matter what activity or what gender the person is,” Salinas said.

Myth: Monkeypox Is A New Illness We’re Fighting

The disease was first identified in the late 1950s and has been endemic in certain West and Central African countries.

Though monkeypox doesn’t typically break out of endemic regions like these, it’s not unheard of. The U.S. has seen sporadic cases in the past when people traveled to such areas or were exposed to imported animals that were infected.

“It has not been largely transmissible as it has been more recently. But it has been around for a long time and just has not had the opportunity to spread throughout populations like it is now,” Baumgarten said.

Myth: The Low Fatality Rate Means Monkeypox Needn’t Be Taken Seriously

Very few people die from monkeypox in general, according to Salinas, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s case data indicates that no monkeypox deaths have been confirmed in the current U.S. outbreak.

“The strain that’s circulating right now is not very deadly. And in the past, it only had been associated with a less than 1% mortality,” Baumgarten said.

The vast majority of people who contract monkeypox do not need to be hospitalized and can manage their symptoms — which commonly include fever, body aches and painful skin lesions — from home, Salinas said.

But even though the disease isn’t usually life-threatening, it can still be dangerous. In certain cases, the lesions can cause vision problems or issues with urinating and defecating.

“It’s clinically mild because people don’t die or need to be hospitalized. But at the same time, it can be a serious problem,” Salinas said.

Source by www.huffpost.com

Related

Share197Tweet123Share49
Previous Post

High school football scores: Week 2

Next Post

City fined for housing discrimination | News

Next Post
City fined for housing discrimination

City fined for housing discrimination | News

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Latest News - Daily illinois

Incorporate effective visual aids.

Tips for Making a Custom Presentation 02/01

February 2, 2023
New Trendy Bodysuit Outfit Ideas 2023

New Trendy Bodysuit Outfit Ideas 2023

January 31, 2023
A Guide to Quick Loans

Speedy Solutions: A Guide to Quick Loans

January 31, 2023
What is the Structure of a Mobile App

What is the Structure of a Mobile App?

January 24, 2023
Benefits of SEN in education

Benefits of SEN in education — why children need it

January 19, 2023
How Do You Style A Simple Top

How Do You Style Your Simple Tops?

December 28, 2022
What is a dress that goes straight down

What Is A Dress That Goes Straight Down

January 18, 2023
ULTRA-RELIEF CBD GEL 1000MG

ULTRA-RELIEF CBD GEL 1000MG

December 28, 2022
Daily illinois - USA | News, Sports & Updates Web Magazine

Copyright © 2020 Dailyillinois.com.

Navigate Site

  • Daily Illinois
  • About
  • Contact
  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • DMCA
  • Sitemap
  • Write For Us

Follow Us

No Result
View All Result
  • About Us Page
  • Contact
  • Daily illinois
  • DMCA Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Submit, Guest Post, Write For Us and Become a Contributor
  • Terms of Use

Copyright © 2020 Dailyillinois.com.

This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.