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An NHS hospital employee in whom monkeypox was diagnosed would have contracted the potentially lethal virus by changing the bedding of a patient.
The woman, a 40-year-old health worker who cared for an infected patient in Blackpool, was quoted as saying that her "small" plastic gloves failed to protect her.
She is the first person to be infected with monkeypox in the UK and her 50-year-old husband has also fallen ill, it was reported.
The woman reportedly told a friend that health bosses' assurances that the staff was not in danger were "patently absurd" and she is terrified of her family.
According to the Sun, the woman told the friend, "The gloves were too short to cover my arms and left my skin exposed when I changed my bed. I think it's like that that I've been infected.
"They told us we were not in danger – but it's obviously nonsense. I am terrified of what can happen to me and my family.
It is feared that her husband will contract the virus after it has exploded in places, the report adds.
Fleetwood's mom in Lancashire is the third person to be diagnosed with monkeypox in the UK, but the first to be infected in this country.
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It was reported that she was placed in isolation in a specialized unit of the Royal Victoria infirmary in Newcastle after developing flu-like symptoms and being transported by members of the rescue team in uniform. laboratory Tuesday.
Public Health England stated that the individual was involved in taking care of a patient at Blackpool Victoria Hospital earlier this month, before it became known he was carrying the infection.
This patient – who was only the second case of rare infection recorded in the UK – would have contracted the virus after his trip to Nigeria.
The first case was diagnosed a few days earlier, after a resident of Nigeria residing at a naval base in Cornwall exhibited symptoms.
Monkeypox does not spread easily between people and most people contracting the infection will recover within a few weeks, although some serious illness may occur in some people.
It kills up to 10% of people who suffer from it during epidemics, mainly young people.
Symptoms of the virus, similar to those of smallpox, include scab formation, fever, headache, muscle aches and chills, and they usually appear in a few days.
It is mainly transmitted to people from wild animals, including rodents and primates in Central and West Africa.
There is no specific treatment or vaccine, although smallpox vaccination has been very effective in preventing monkeypox, according to the World Health Organization.
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PHE had previously stated that there was "no connection in the UK" between the first two patients.
However, Dr. Nick Phin, deputy director of the National Infection Department at PHE, said the third case was "not totally unexpected".
Dr. Phin said, "This health worker has treated the patient before a diagnosis of monkeypox is made.
"We actively followed contacts for 21 days after exposure to detect anyone with a disease so they could be assessed quickly, so it's not totally unexpected that one case has been identified .
"This person has been isolated and we take a very careful approach to ensure that all contacts are well established."
There was a large outbreak of monkeypox in Nigeria in September 2017 and sporadic cases have been reported since then.
The World Health Organization describes it as a "rare viral zoonotic disease" that is found mostly in remote areas of central and western Africa, near tropical rainforests.
The first case identified involved a nine-year-old boy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, then known as Zaire, in 1970.
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