It’s an understatement to say that everyone on planet Earth is sick and tired of the Coronavirus pandemic. Since coming from Wuhan, China at the turn of the 2020, Covid has become a daily staple in the international community. It has claimed millions of lives-especially putting the lives of the elderly and the young at risk- while hospitalizing several million more.
\Statistically speaking, the current state of the world eerily is a shadow of the horrific effects of the 1918 Spanish Flu, which ended ironically in April 1920, a century prior to the “real” beginning of Covid.
Now, WHO, or the World Health Organization, warns the world of another virus that may pose a threat to our society once again. The name? Monkeypox.
Monkeypox, a “large double-stranded DNA virus” that is approximately 7 times as large as the Coronavirus, is the newest of concerns to the global community. First reported in West Africa in 1986, the New York Times says that the number of cases since have increased by twentyfold. In Nigeria alone, in 2017 the country had 228 suspected cases of Monkeypox and 68 confirmed cases.
Some experts say that the virus is spread through rodents. In 2003, 71 Americans were infected with Monkeypox when Gambian pouched rats came through the country. It seems however, that the numbers we are currently seeing now with Monkeypox puts health officials on high awareness.
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