Israel reported on Saturday the first case of monkeypox in a human, after the detection in several European and North American countries of cases of this disease usually endemic in West Africa.
First case of monkeypox detected in Israel. He is a 30-year-old man who recently returned from Western Europe, a spokesman for Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv told AFP.
This Friday, the Ministry of Health indicated that this man, whose symptoms are mild, had been in contact with a patient abroad.
Several Western countries including France, Germany, Great Britain, the United States, Spain and Sweden have identified cases.
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Monkeypox or “simian orthopoxvirus” is a rare disease whose pathogen can be transmitted from animals to humans and vice versa.
Its symptoms resemble, in less serious, those which one observed in the past at the subjects reached of pox: fever, headaches, muscular pains, dorsal, during the first five days. Then appear rashes, lesions, pustules and finally scabs.
There is no cure for monkeypox, which usually resolves on its own and symptoms last 14 to 21 days.
Human-to-human transmission can result from close contact with infected respiratory tract secretions, skin lesions of an infected person, or objects recently contaminated with body fluids or material from a patient’s lesions.
Most cases have been among men who have sex with men, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, which has previously said it wants to shed light on community transmission of the virus. homosexual.
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