Nigerian Centre for Disease Control explains symptoms of monkeypox in the video below:
Monkeypox virus (MPV) is a double-stranded DNA, zoonotic virus and a species of the genus Orthopoxvirus in the family Poxviridae.
It is one of the human orthopoxviruses that includes variola (VARV), cowpox (CPX), and vaccinia (VACV) viruses. But it is not a direct ancestor to, nor a direct descendent of, the variola virus which causes smallpox.
The monkeypox virus causes a disease that is similar to smallpox, but with a milder rash and lower death rate.
Variation in virulence of the virus has been observed in isolates from Central Africa where strains are more virulent than those from Western Africa.
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The virus can spread both from animal to human and from human to human. Infection from animal to human can occur via an animal bite or by direct contact with an infected animal’s bodily fluids.
The virus can spread from human to human by both droplet respiration and contact with fomites from an infected person’s bodily fluids.
Incubation period is 10–14 days. Prodromal symptoms include swelling of lymph nodes, muscle pain, headache, fever, prior to the emergence of the rash.
