Monkey Pox

Hi. My name is Taylor Forsman and this is me and Nicole's project on monkeypox.

So, first of all, here's an overview, what is it,

you might ask it is a virus that's part of the same family as smallpox.

And it was discovered in 1958 when there was an outbreak of a pox like disease

that occurred in the colony of monkeys that were being held for research

and some common confusions with it is that it's related to the chicken pox,

which is not.

And also despite the name being monkey pox, we do not know

what the cause of this disease is

Now for signs and symptoms first with the symptoms, it's obviously a rash.

It can be located on your hands, feet, chest, face, mouth or near your genitals.

And here's a up close picture of it.

And

you could also have fever chills, swore lymph nodes, exhaustion, muscle aches.

Backache, headache and other respiratory symptoms, like trouble breathing.

And

the duration of these symptoms.

So your symptoms usually start within three weeks of exposure to the virus.

And if you're one of those people who have those flu like symptoms,

you probably develop a rash after this like 1-4 days later,

Ok. And now for prevention.

So first let's learn how it spreads.

It spreads through direct contact of someone who

has these rashes or scabs and it can also

um spread through saliva.

So kissing, sharing food, sharing drinks,

any stuff like that where you share saliva,

also, any type of sex or touching of the genitals can spread it

and it can also be spread to your fetus if

you are pregnant or quickly after birth to your newborn

how do we stop it?

Number one, practice safe sex and number two, a vaccine.

And here's a little more on the vaccine.

So it's a two dose vaccine. You get one at first and then another 14 weeks later.

And it's also used to treat smallpox.

last who's at risk. So first, let's start with the demographics that are at risk.

So Children are more likely to have the more severe symptoms of teens and adults.

And then people who are more susceptible to it are gay,

bisexual in any type of men that have sex with other men in their,

the majority of the cases who have monkey pox.

And now people who are at risk are also people who have

come in contact with someone who has this virus within two weeks.

And yes. So that's all from our presentation.

I hope you're paying attention because now we're gonna play a game of jeopardy

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