Posted: 6/eight/2022 1:27:30 am
Modified: 06/08/2022 01:24:24
LEBANON — Dartmouth Well being has established a hotline to handle public issues about monkeypox, in response to a information launch.
The hotline quantity is 603-650-1818 and is open Monday by means of Friday from 7 am to five pm and Saturday from eight am to midday. The hotline is closed on Sundays.
Friday’s hotline announcement comes a day after the Biden administration declared the monkeypox outbreak in the USA a nationwide well being emergency. Monkeypox is an infectious viral illness that causes pores and skin lesions, typically preceded or adopted by flu-like signs, with attainable issues together with scarring, secondary an infection, pneumonia, sepsis, and imaginative and prescient loss.
The present outbreak started in Could. The illness was first detected in New Hampshire in late June. Vermont introduced its first case on July 29.
Monkeypox is unfold by means of shut contact, equivalent to sexual exercise; direct contact with a monkeypox rash, scabs, or physique fluids from an individual with monkeypox; touching objects, materials, or surfaces which were utilized by somebody with monkeypox; or contact with respiratory secretions equivalent to saliva from somebody with monkeypox.
Signs can embrace fever; headache, muscle aches, and again ache; swollen lymph nodes; shaking chills; exhaustion; respiratory signs; and a rash that goes by means of a number of phases and could be painful or itchy.
Individuals who assume they might have monkeypox can name the Dartmouth Well being hotline for data and may self-isolate at residence and make contact with their major care supplier. It isn’t really useful that folks go to an emergency division straight away.
