The US authorities detected a first case of monkeypox in a man residing in the state of Massachusetts (northeast of the country).
This is an adult man who had recently traveled to Canada, the Massachusetts health department said in a statement.
The Massachusetts health department did the initial tests on Tuesday to detect the disease and, later, the government Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States (CDC, for its acronym in English) confirmed that it was smallpox of the monkey
The symptoms of monkeypox are similar to that of the now eradicated smallpox, although somewhat milder – fever, headache, muscle pain, back pain, chills and exhaustion – and there is often swollen glands and a skin rash, that begins on the face and spreads to other parts of the body, mainly hands and feet.
This is the first case of monkeypox detected in the US this year.
The states of Texas and Maryland each reported one case in 2021 with patients who had recently traveled to Nigeria.