Dr. Theerawat pointed out Smallpox is spread via ‘kiss, lick, oem, cough, sneeze’, infecting personal belongings for 15 days.
On August 2, Prof. Dr. Thirawat Hemajuta, Director of the Emerging Disease Health Sciences Center Faculty of Medicine Chulalongkorn University posted a Facebook page “Theerawat Hemajuta Thiravat Hemachudha” regarding smallpox. with details as follows:
How is the monkey pox virus spread?
This disease can be prevented at a personal level. we have to help each other The spread is similar to COVID but “Much harder” (repeat) and sexually transmitted diseases, therefore, requires intense close contact.
Don’t panic, get excited, panic.
Spread through saliva from kissing, licking, coughing, sneezing, intimate speech (repeat, normal speech addiction does not occur. requires intense contact and must be very close to the skin for a long time
For example, during and during sex from touching wounds, blisters, pustules on the skin
indirectly from the residual virus on the surface Includes body skin and clothing, supplies, bedding (lasts 15 days).
Cycle, face, hand, mouth, eyes, sex, clean the surface.
Prof. Dr. Teerawat also said regarding the difficulty of smallpox monkeys. spread prevention And for the best assessment of the severity, it is possible to know early when the infected person has started spreading the virus. This can be obtained from the information. physical and skin symptoms
But starting to have limitations:
14% had rashes, wounds, and blisters on the skin without any physical symptoms and symptoms in which the skin may have a single point or a single location and may be hidden (So you may not know and no warning signs that it is already addicted)
86% had physical and skin symptoms and in 39% of the physical symptoms group, the skin symptoms occurred first.
The nature of the rash, ulcers, blisters on the skin is not according to the textbooks. Sorted from a flat rash, raised, blisters, clear water, pustules break into wounds, scabs, such as blisters before
In addition, the appearance of rashes, ulcers, blisters, many stages of this can occur at the same time, polystage polymorphic.
Physical symptoms may not have all of them. and not at the same time, including fever, aches, headaches, backaches, fatigue, enlarged lymph nodes
So early diagnosis Everything must be put together. and sincere in giving history and including the risk of having activities for oneself and those involved in preventing the spread of the disease widely
It’s not a disease to be afraid of disgusting people.