Monkeypox virus can spread in the air, how much danger is there to pregnant women? Learn

New Delhi: The cases of monkeypox are increasing day by day in the world. The disease has spread to more than 30 countries. Its virus has been confirmed in more than 800 patients. Meanwhile, in a report published in the New York Times, experts have feared that monkeypox disease can spread through the air. He says that just as the corona virus spreads in the air, in the same way monkeypox can also infect the people living around its patient.

In a conversation with the New York Times, experts cited the monkeypox spread in Nigeria. He said that monkeypox was spread in 2017 in a prison in Nigeria. Apart from the prisoners living there, it had also caught the health workers. Such people also became victims of this disease, who had never come in contact with its patients. This suggests that monkeypox disease can also be spread through the air in some cases.

US advised masks, then reversed

However, confusion has arisen after the US Centers of Disease Control reversed its previous announcement regarding monkeypox. The center had initially advised wearing masks, but later canceled that advice. Something similar was done by the Center even in the initial stages of the outbreak of the Corona epidemic. Meanwhile, Britain's Health Protection Agency has called it a notable infectious disease in view of the increasing cases of monkeypox. Wendy Shepherd, director of monkeypox affairs at the UKHSA, told a British medical journal that to prevent further spread of monkeypox, it must be treated quickly and suspected patients must be reported and isolated. The designation of monkeypox as a notable infectious disease will accelerate its detection, treatment and prevention.

Pregnant women at risk?

Questions are also being raised whether monkeypox disease can also affect pregnant women and their unborn babies. A study done in Congo is being cited about this. Then a study was conducted on 216 women affected by monkeypox, in which 4 out of every 5 women had a miscarriage. The virus and its components were found in the examination of their unborn children.

Rumors of vaccine side effects

Some such rumors are also flying on social media that this new form of monkeypox disease is actually a side effect of the corona vaccine. For this, the adenovirus vector of chimpanzees used in AstraZeneca's vaccine is being cited. Although experts are calling it a pure rumour. He says that the pox virus of monkeypox and the adenovirus used in the Kovid vaccine are from a completely different family, which have nothing to do with each other. Professor Eom Jung-shik, an infectious disease specialist at Gachon University Gil Medical Center, says that the vaccine cannot cause any new virus inside humans.