Almost 40 years after the victory over smallpox, scientists predict deadly new epidemic, which could begin at any moment. Currently, the disease has already recorded in several patients, and she came from monkeys.
A hundred years ago almost a third of the world population, or 500 million people at the time, got sick with the Spanish flu, and 50 million died. Since then, scientists constantly talked about the possibility of another supervirulent virusthat can befall humanity. Today the spread of this disease will become much more rapid due to simplify ways to travel from different parts of the world. Is believed that this virus could be monkey pox. This is an extremely infectious agent that has overcome the barrier between the different animal species peredavai from wild animals in Africa to humans.
Initially, it will infect only humans, living in the vicinity of the birthplace of the epidemic, but the virus will spread and mutate by collecting the genetic material of other viruses and even their DNA. As a result, it can become so contagious that its dissemination will need only once to sneeze or cough. Unfortunately, the reality of this scenario is high. The other day was the third confirmed case of smallpox of monkeys in humans.
We are talking about patients in the UK. 40-year-old woman was taken Tuesday to the hospital by paramedics dressed in hazmat suits. She is receiving treatment in an isolated ward in the 250 km from his home in Lancashire. It is expected that soon after vaccination against smallpox will be members of her family, colleagues, hospital staff and all who are with her in contact 24 hours before she got sick. Monkey pox is called ordinary smallpox, a related virus that is less contagious and usually causing small symptoms. However, in the West Africa outbreak in 10% of cases proved fatal. And humanity may be faced with more aggressive and mutated virus, as scientists predict. (READ MORE)