At the end of June, the monkeypox virus was diagnosed in a boy from Amsterdam who is younger than ten years old. “Contamination through sexual contact is excluded, but we do not know how the boy did become infected,” doctor-microbiologist Matthijs Welker told the newspaper. The watchword.
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From an article in the scientific journal Eurosurveillance it turns out that the boy arrived at the UMC with twenty blisters at the end of June. The boy had two blisters on his face and the rest were all over his body, but none near his genitals.
At first, the boy’s doctor didn’t think it was the monkeypox virus. A treatment for impetigo did not work, so the boy was sent to the hospital with the suspicion of monkey pox.
The big question was how he got infected. Contamination through sexual contact was excluded after consultation with the parents and careful examination for other STDs. “Perhaps via virus particles in the air, contaminated surfaces or shared objects such as a towel. But there are no strong indications for a specific transmission route,” said Welker.
Any case
A spokesperson for the GGD is late AT5 know that it is the first and only case where a child has been infected with monkey pox virus. According to the spokesperson, it has not happened in a child since.
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