NewsDesk @ bactiman63 New Zealand health authorities have reported the country’s first case of monkeypox. New Zealand/NASA/JPL/NIMA The person is in his 30s, lives in Auckland and recently returned from overseas travel to a country with reported cases of monkeypox. Given the rise in cases internationally, including in Australia, the arrival in New Zealand was not unexpected. There are a very small number of contacts of the incident who are advised to watch for symptoms. There is no evidence of community transmission. Cases of monkeypox outside of endemic countries have been identified mainly among gay and bisexual men and men who have sex with men, and international cases have clustered around events where this occurs. The first symptoms of monkeypox include one or more of the following: headache, acute onset of fever (>38.0 C), chills, swollen lymph nodes, muscle and body aches, back pain, and fatigue. The characteristic rash, which usually looks like chickenpox, appears after a few days. The majority of people with Monkeypox can be treated safely at home, and there have been very few deaths from Monkeypox worldwide.
