What would it do to your body , if you got monkey pox

fever

then swollen lymph nodes

and then large lesions forming all over

your body

after more than two years of covet 19

the next pandemic might be spreading

around the world

and you could be one of the first people

to contract it

what would happen to your body if you

got monkey box

how could you get it without even

leaving your country

and what are the chances we could be on

the verge of the next viral outbreak

this is what if and here's what would

happen if you got monkey pox

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monkey pox is the next virus everyone is

talking about and just like covet 19

it's zoonotic meaning it can be

transmitted to you from an infected

animal

it's similar to smallpox but it isn't

quite that

unlike covet 19 monkey pox has been

around for decades

since the 1970s it's been reported in

central and west africa

and just recently the virus made it into

the western world

one thing that really worries scientists

now is that you don't even have to go to

africa to get infected

you see the world has dealt with monkey

pox cases before

some of those infected may have brought

it from nigeria which has been dealing

with a large outbreak since 2017

but this time

it's different

it looks like it could be spread to you

by getting intimate with someone

although health authorities aren't sure

how people are catching monkey pox

outside of central and west africa there

is one interesting theory

it suggests that you could get infected

during sexual intercourse

well before you get excited science is

still unclear if you could get monkey

pox specifically through sexual

transmission but you could get it

through bodily fluids lesions or

respiratory droplets of someone who's

already infected

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what scientists do know for sure is that

you can contract monkey pox if you come

into contact with an infected animal's

body fluids

and before you start being alert around

monkeys

these primates don't have much to do

with spreading the virus

monkey pox is typically carried by small

rodents like tree squirrels rope

squirrels and dorm ice

if you were carrying the virus

you wouldn't know right away

that's because monkey pox has an

incubation period between 5 and 21 days

when the infection kicked in the first

thing you'd notice would be a fever

you'd have a horrible headache and you'd

feel very tired

these symptoms could last for up to five

days

at first it wouldn't really be much

different from chickenpox or measles

except your lymph nodes would get

swollen so watch them closely

after one to three days of fever things

would start getting worse

you'd experience a rash all over your

face hands and feet

there's a 70 chance you'd get an

eruption inside your mouth and a 30

chance the rash would spread to your

genitalia

it could even affect your eyes

you could get lucky and only have a few

lesions or you could have several

thousand of them

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first they'd look like slightly raised

bumps on your skin

then they'd get filled with clear fluid

in one or two days this fluid would get

yellowish and about a week after that

your lesions would dry up and fall off

not too bad right

well unfortunately it could get worse

it's possible that monkey pox wouldn't

be the only virus attacking your body

it could come with potentially serious

secondary issues like pneumonia

encephalitis and infection of the

corneas

and there's not one approved treatment

for monkey pox

smallpox antivirals can help you treat

monkey pox but you could manage your

symptoms by drinking lots of fluids and

eating well

you should also make sure that you're

vaccinated against smallpox

scientists confirmed that the smallpox

vaccine is about 85 percent effective at

preventing monkeybox

other than that you'd likely be fine

after a couple of weeks

only some scars on your skin would

remain as a reminder that you'd

contracted monkey pox

now overall there's no reason to panic

and stock up on toilet paper monkey pox

is no covet 19. it can't be transmitted

across a room

plus monkey pox is nothing new

we weren't prepared to face covet 19 but

we have decades of information on the

monkey pox virus and a working vaccine

so

let's not lose our heads over it

unless we decided to stop all

vaccinations altogether