Dr Jane Ruth Aceng’s Ministry of Health (MoH) has spoken out on the monkey pox, saying it has intensified surveillance as the disease continues to spread across the world.
A viral disease transmitted from animals to humans, Monkey Pox is transmitted from one person to another by close contact with lesions, body fluids, respiratory droplets and contaminated materials such as beddings.
Caused by the Monkey Pox Virus, the disease can also be spread through eating inadequately cooked meat and other animal products of infected animals. The disease is also spread through physical or direct contact including ‘forbidden fruit chewing’ with an infected person.
The incubation period of Monkey Pox is said to be between six and13 days, and its mortality rate somewhere between three and six per cent. Patients, the most vulnerable ones being children and individuals with low immunity levels, present with symptoms such as fever, rash, intense headache, swelling of the lymph nodes, back pain, muscle aches and body weakness.
According to Dr Henry G Mwebesa, the Director General Health Services, the MoH is yet to confirm any case of Monkey Pox disease in Uganda.
“The Ministry of Health would like to inform the general public that no case of Monkey Pox has been registered in Uganda. However, there is an outbreak of this disease in 23 non-endemic countries worldwide and at least eight endemic countries within the African tropical belt,” said Mwebesa on June 06.
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