CDC issues Ebola – MonkeyPox Warning July 21, 2021

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A case of Ebola – monkeypox has been confirmed in a African refugee who just arrived in Texas on a flight from Nigeria , health officials confirmed July 17, 2021.

The african refugee has been hospitalized and isolated in Dallas Texas, and is in stable condition, according to officials with the Dallas County Health and Human Services and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Monkeypox can be spread through fluids or eating an infected monkey or contact with an infected animal.

doctors extract blood from a teenage boy with monkeypox in a village at the Republic of Congo 

The traveler arrived at Dallas Love Field on July 9 from Atlanta after a flight from Nigeria a day prior.

The case is the first ever confirmed instance of  monkeypox in the Lone Star State, according to local officials.