How do you get monkeypox? And how to avoid infection? – The doctor

How do you get infected with the monkeypox disease that is spreading around the world and has reached Israel? And how to avoid contracting the monkeypox disease? Monkey pox disease is a disease caused by a virus from the Poxviridae family of viruses that leads to the disease worldwide and in Israel. Monkey pox is a disease with symptoms, including rashes and blisters on the body and in the genital area, itching and redness accompanied by fever, enlarged lymph nodes, weakness, exhaustion, pain in the head, muscles or back.

How are you tested for monkeypox?

The ways of contracting the monkeypox disease are diverse. Here are the possible ways of infection:

1. Contact with remains from a person with the symptoms of the disease – for example, contact with a blanket or clothing worn by a person with monkeypox
2. Physical contact between one person and another person with symptoms of the disease or with their body fluids or with peelings or droplet secretions.
3. Close physical contact includes during intimate relations.
4. Human contact with an animal infected with monkeypox such as mice.

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How to avoid contracting monkeypox?

Various findings show ways to avoid contracting the disease. The Ministry of Health also published recommendations regarding ways to prevent infection. According to the recommendations, in order to reduce the risk of contracting monkeypox, one should avoid physical contact with a person who is sick with the disease and avoid contact with his secretions, body fluids and skin peelings, avoid contact with blankets, bedding, towels, personal belongings, equipment and clothing of the patient.

Therefore, we can reduce the risk of the disease through the use of personal equipment and maintaining hygiene and reducing physical contact with the patient and reducing contact with equipment and objects with which he comes into contact, including isolation of the patient in various cases to reduce the risk to others.

It is also possible to prevent infection by receiving a monkeypox vaccine, when it comes to a person who is exposed or at increased risk of the disease.