Pouya Rohani
Topic: health/ disease
2:41 pm
Pox viruses should be more placed under attention by researchers and agencies that funds researches in this area. It was not passed much years since smallpox was destroyed that humanity again faced another health related challenge, monkeypox. Monkeypox virus can kill its victims and transmitted from individual and small animal, carrying the virus, to another individual. African countries, especially the Democratic Republic of Congo, had been more at risk for the infection than other part of the world. Animals like squirrels and monkey largely found in the Congo and they are the favorite host for the virus. People in Congo consume more wild animals as their country was ruin by the civil war that forced many people to escape from violence to forests. Based on the survey that was conducted in the country, they found out that the number of individual infected with virus has increased twenty times. This data was very scary and unexpected. Majority of the cases were born after smallpox vaccination was officialy stopped by officials. Those who were vaccinated five times less likely to become infected with monkeypox virus compared to those with no smallpox vaccination. There is strong possibility that more and more people become infected with monkeypox virus. The virus can evolve over time and become much harder to destroy the virus. I believe education of people especially those who are at the great risk will help to at least control the disease from expanding among individuals.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38938793/ns/health/
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