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Monkeypox is rarely
. Most of the cases reported
far have been fairly
. Symptoms of the disease include chills, fever, muscle
, exhaustion and a nasty rash on the hands and face. It usually clears up two to four weeks after contracting it. Monkeypox was first detected in
monkeys in 1958. It is thought to transmit from wild animals such as
to people. It can also spread from person to person. The virus is related to the smallpox virus, for which there are
. Scientists say a smallpox vaccine is 85 per cent
against the monkeypox virus. Despite this
figure, virologists around the globe are on high alert and are tracking the spread of
.
