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Danish researcher was worried when she saw the first cases of monkey pox - but now it has changed | India | DR So far, monkey cups are not something you can incur in the gym or the metro, assesses Lone Simonsen. In presentations, lectures and even a book, Professor and Lone Simonsen have long predicted that infection with a new variant of smallpox would probably break out. That it was a matter of time and a bid could be monkey cups. She was right. Quite unusually, monkey pox, which is most prevalent in Africa, has spread to several countries in Europe and today another case has been confirmed in Denmark, so we end up with two people so far. - I have to stop doing such some predictions. I think it's spooky, says Lone Simonsen, professor of epidemiology at Roskilde University and at the same time one of those who predicted that the world would be hit by a corona pandemic. She adds, however, that when it comes to monkey pox, then she does not think we have one on hand.Now I feel much better after seeing that there is a clear contact pattern between many of the approximately 100 known cases.Lone Simonsen, professor and epidemiologist at Roskilde UniversityWhen she read about the first cases in the UK earlier in May, she was worried because it did not seem that the people knew each other or had anything else relevant in common.- But now I feel much better after seeing that there is a clear contact pattern between many of the approximately 100 known cases, she says.What one sees is that it is especially young men who have traveled to festivals, met each other, had sexual contact and many partners, which has led to a network of infected people, says Lo ne Simonsen.- It is something that is a completely different situation than a virus that is spreading democratically among everyone.The first case in this country, which was discovered on Monday, was found in a man who had been traveling to Spain, and it the same applies to the second case, Anders Fomsgaard told the TV2 program Go 'Morgen Danmark earlier in the morning. 23 of them were found in Spain. Lone Simonsen calms down It is reassuring for people in general that it is not something you can incur in a metro or a fitness club. Lone Simonsen, professor and epidemiologist at Roskilde University Until now, data shows namely that you most likely have to be in body contact - for example sexual contact - with another human being to get it, says Lone Simonsen.- It is reassuring for people in general that it is not something you can incur in a metro or a fitness club. It is a virus where the good thing is - if you can put it that way - that you can do a lot yourself to prevent being infected, says Lone Simonsen. Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Great Britain, Austria, Netherlands, Australia, Canada, USA, Israel Earlier today, the World Health Organization also said that there is no need for mass vaccination against monkey pox. At the same time, Richard Pebody, of the European Division of High-Risk Pathogens, stating that it is not a virus that spreads easily and that it has not caused serious illness so far. On Monday, the assessment from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) , that the likelihood of a widespread outbreak of monkey pox in Europe is very low. Accordingly, the incidence of the disease in Europe has generally been mild. CDC - Yvan J.F. HutinIf you become infected with monkey pox, it will be from someone who is ill and has the characteristic spots and blisters that will be visible on both the face and the body. The blisters contain virus and when they burst, you may inhale it or come into direct contact with them by touch. From the time you become infected until you show symptoms, it can take 1 to 3 weeks. During that period, you do not become infected. The first symptoms will typically be fever, chills, muscle aches and headaches. After 3-4 days, there will usually be a rash with 3 to 5 millimeter red dots. It typically starts in the face and can spread to the whole body including the nasal mucosa and lungs. Then they will turn into virus-filled small blisters, and when they burst, it can spread via sneezing or coughing by close contact. Source: Anders Fomsgaard, Statens Serum Institut we see monkey cups spreading as it does now, there is no definitive answer. But the reason why Lone Simonsen thought it could be on the list of diseases that we would soon see a wave of infections is due to the fact that there has been an "opening". Many decades ago, we stopped mod the deadly smallpox, which has made people under the age of 40 not immune to poxviruses, says Lone Simonsen.- More and more people around the world are not immune to that family virus, and therefore I thought there was an ecological opening for the virus.- And if one came, I suggested monkey pox, which already breaks out in Africa every year.