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Japan's first case of monkeypox has been confirmed in Tokyo. The health ministry says a Tokyo resident in his 30s with a recent history of overseas travel tested positive on Monday.
※pox＝痘症 ※chicken pox=水疱瘡 ※smallpox天然痘
風土病とされていましたが、今年5月から世界的に広がりを見せ、世界保健機関（ＷＨＯ）は「国際的に懸念される公衆衛生上の緊急事態」を宣言していました。
Monkeypox is not a new disease, and in some African countries, it is endemic. However, the international outbreak which began in May 2022, has prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a global health emergency.
※endemic＝（動植物や病が）特定の民族、国に固有の 語源：ギリシャ語でdemos人々
名詞で風土病、地方病 endemic disease ➾epidemic流行病 ➾ pandemic 世界的流行
潜伏期間後、発熱、頭痛、筋肉痛、リンパ節の腫れなどの症状が出ます。
Symptoms of the disease include fever, headaches, muscle pains, extensive rashes, skin lesions, and swollen lymph nodes following an incubation period of five to 21 days.
※rash=発疹、皮疹、汗疹、ふきでもの
※skin lesion 皮膚損傷［病変・病巣］
※lymph node リンパ節（LN）
※incubation period=培養時間／《医》潜伏期（間） ➾period of latency
人が発症した一例目は1970年のコンゴ。アフリカ以外では、ペットのプレーリードッグから2003年にアメリカで流行。
人間、齧歯類＝rodentが感染するa zoonotic viral disease (動物原性感染症)です。
Human monkeypox was first identified in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in a 9-month-old boy.
In 2003, the first Monkeypox outbreak outside Africa was reported in the United States and was linked to contact with infected pet prairie dogs.
接触感染で同性愛者の間で多いことから、エイズの時のような偏見も心配されています。
Anyone can get monkeypox, but a "notable fraction" of cases in the global outbreak are among gay and bisexual men.
That doesn't mean the virus is sexually transmitted, but prolonged skin-to-skin contact is one of the major ways monkeypox is now spreading.
WHOのサイトから：
Messages that stigmatize certain groups of people around this outbreak have been circulating. The WHO has made it clear that this is unacceptable.
“Stigma and discrimination can be as dangerous as any virus."
※stigmatize汚名を着せる、非難する、〔～に〕烙印を押す
名詞：stigma＝〔社会的な〕烙印、汚名、不名誉のしるし［証拠］
