Monkeypox, a disease endemic to West and Central African
countries, can be transmitted through lovemaking, the Nigeria
Centre for Disease Control has warned.
This is as a medical virologist and immunologist noted that
the disease is deadlier in patients suffering from other diseases.
Monkeypox, a rare disease that is caused by infection with
the monkeypox virus, belongs to the Orthopoxvirus genus in the family
Poxviridae.
The disease has recently surfaced in some European
countries, with 66 suspected cases reported so far in Nigeria in 2022.The NCDC
noted that of the 66, no fewer than 21 cases had been confirmed but countries
such as the United Kingdom, the US, Portugal, Spain, Israel, Lebanon and Canada
among others have reported cases.
The World Health Organisation, in a statement it released
last week, noted that the outbreak of the Monkeypox disease is being discovered
in countries where it is not endemic.
However, the NCDC’s
post on its website on Thursday, noted that s33.x..u@l interc0urse happens to
be a mode of transmission.
The post read,
“Symptoms of the illness include fever, headache, body aches, weakness, swollen
lymph nodes (glands) and a rash. After about 1 to 3 days of fever, the rash
erupts, beginning on the face and then spreading to the body with the face and
palms/soles being mostly affected. “They can also occur in and around the
genitals which is why contact during love making is one mode of transmission.
It is mostly a self-limiting illness that often lasts for two to four weeks.”
Speaking in an interview with The PUNCH, a Professor of
Medical Virology, University of Maiduguri, Prof Marycelin Baba, said the
disease could be transmitted through skin contact.
“There is a risk of
human to human transmission. If you have someone around you who has the
infection, it is very easy for you to get infected and s33x cannot be ruled out
because there is contact,” Baba said.
Also, a medical virologist and immunologist at the Adeleke
University, Ede, Osun State, Dr Oladipo Kolawole, told our correspondent that
Monkeypox can overwhelm patients with co-morbidity (existence of more than one
disease or condition within the body at the same time) and can lead to death.
Kolawole said, “There are different types of co-morbidity
but anybody that is immunocompromised due to a certain disease condition and
now has Monkeypox may suffer the possibility of death.
“The meaning is that the person’s immune system is
immunocompromised; he cannot handle such infections. So, the power of the virus
will overwhelm the immune system of such an individual which may lead to
death.”
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