Monkeypox is the latest emerging germ to alarm public health experts, with more than 4,000 cases reported worldwide this year, including at least 300 in the United States. zoonotic disease, rarely spreads from rodents, to something that regularly jumps among humans from now on, perhaps predominantly as a sexually transmitted infection.
The most distinctive symptoms of monkeypox are contagious rashes that form one or two weeks after exposure, which can last up to a month. But unfortunately, rashes and strange skin growths can occur for different reasons. So for those of us who might be understandably paranoid to see new blows appear on our skin these days, here’s a summary of eight eruptive conditions that aren’t monkey pox.
And as a reference, here is the real look of the monkey’s smallpox:
Image: CDC
Image: CDC