The infection usually causes only mild illness and most people recover from it within a few weeks. More serious diseases can occur, but not often – he writes Sky News.
The most common symptoms of the disease are fever, headache, muscle aches, back pain and fatigue. The infection has now been detected in a man who was in Nigeria recently and is presumed to have contracted smallpox there. The person is now being treated in a London hospital, and the authorities have taken the usual steps to prevent the disease.
According to the British Institute of Public Health (England), the infection was only discovered among African monkeys in 1958, and the first known human disease was in the 1970s in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The infection is spread mainly by wildlife in West and Central Africa, and humans rarely transmit the virus to each other.
The rarity of the disease is demonstrated by the fact that this virus was last detected in England in late 2019. And in the United States Although the virus appeared last year – And in that time, more than 200 people stayed in touch for a short time – but in the end none of them were diagnosed with the disease. Later, last November, there was also someone who came in infected, but only to find out that he hadn’t transmitted the pathogen to anyone else.
