monkeypox

Pihak Berkuasa Peranti Perubatan (MDA) telah meluluskan satu kit ujian virus cacar monyet (mpox) yang pertama untuk pasaran Malaysia bagi membantu pengesanan virus itu secara berkesan.

Datuk Lukanisman Awang Sauni said first two cases were recorded in Kuala Lumpur in July, the third and fourth cases in Selangor last month.

Keputusan untuk menamakan semula monkeypox itu dibuat setelah siri konsultasi bersama pakar global.

WHO urged others to use the new preferred term after receiving complaints that the current name for the disease was racist and stigmatising.

The virus is known to spread via close contact and causes symptoms including fever, body aches and often painful pus-filled skin lesions.

Monkeypox and HIV have collided with tragic effects, Dr. Jonathan Mermin said.

California had the most confirmed cases among US states so far, with 4,656 cases.

Wu calls for people to avoid "skin-to-skin contact" with people who have been abroad within the past three weeks as well as all "strangers".

Rosamund Lewis said physical contact of any kind with someone who has the virus would put them at risk of catching it too.

The monkeypox virus may cause intense pain but the psychological scars of the illness can be just as devastating, says sufferers.

Lebih 105,000 dos vaksin Imvamune sudah dihantar ke wilayah terbabit dengan lebih 59,000 orang telah menerima suntikan dos pertama pada 14 Ogos lalu.

Rosamund Lewis said "waste management is critical" to lowering the risk of contaminating rodents and other animals outside the household.

Experts warn the name can be stigmatising to the primates it was named after, but who play little role in its spread.

With monkeypox surging across the world, experts are gathering more evidence on how people catch it and its typical symptoms.

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