MPOx MPOX is a rare disease caused by the virus. The MPOX virus belongs to the same family of the virus that causes smallpox. While mpox symptoms are similar to smallpox symptoms, they are less severe, and mpox is rarely fatal.
MPOX can cause a rash that looks like pimples or blisters. The rash can be painful or itchy, and it can be near or near the genitals or anus. It can also appear on other body parts, such as hands, feet, chest, face and mouth.
Additional symptoms of MPOX may include the following:
Fever
Headache
Muscle pain and back pain
Inflammatory lymph nodes
Chill
Exhaustion
Respiratory symptoms, such as cough, nasal congestion, and sore throat
The mpox symptoms usually appear within three weeks of exposure to the virus. The disease usually lasts for two to four weeks. Some people first get a rash, followed by other symptoms, while others first get flu -like symptoms and then a grain develops after one to four days. Nevertheless, others get only one grain and no other symptoms.
In 2022, many countries had a outbreak that usually does not report MPOX including the United States.
MPOX can spread close to a person, personal, often during skin exposure to skin, whose infection is. This can occur during direct contact with mpox grains, scabs, or body fluid, or contact with respiratory discharge. Direct contact may occur during intimate physical contact, including oral, anus and vaginal sex and can touch the genitalia or anus of a person infected with mpox. It can also occur during a hug, massage, kissing and any kind of face-to-face contact.
You can also get mpox by touching clothes (such as clothes, beds and towels), used by an infected person and using items touching items that touch items used during sex, items touching items are used, which were used by any infected person, such as a bottle gear or sex toy.
Additionally, you can get mpox from infected animals, either scratching or cutting by animal, preparation or eating meat, or using products from infected animals. Pregnant women can spread mpox into their embryos.
The MPOX can spread from the onset of symptoms until the rash is completely cured and a new layer of skin is formed. It can take several weeks; During this time sexual contact and intimacy should be avoided. It is not known whether the MPOx can spread through semen or vaginal fluid.
The CDC recommends vaccination for those who are in contact with MPOX, as well as people who are in danger of coming in contact with MPOX:
People who have been identified as a person’s contact, who have MPOX
Those who would have been made aware of the MPOX, such as those who have a sexual partner, who have been detected MPOX in the last two weeks or those who had many sexual partners in the last two weeks, in a field with a known mpox outbreak
People whose jobs can expose them in MPOX
Vaccines developed to protect antiviral drugs and vaccines from smallpox can be used to prevent and treat MPX infections.
How to reduce your risk of getting STD
The only way to completely avoid STDs including herpes is not vagina, anus or oral sex. If you are sexually active, you can lose your risk in an accepting relationship with a partner for a long time, for a long time, there is mutually monotonous relationship with a partner Tested for STDAnd every time you have sex, using condoms correctly.
If you have any symptoms of genital ringworm or any other STD, look at your doctor or go to the sexual health clinic. Your doctor will know what test you have to give to find any STD. And if you are sexually active, screening regularly and always practice safe sex.