TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – The Ministry of Health or Ministry of Health stated that the patient monkey pox or Monkeypox (Mpox) in Indonesia was detected as many as 34 people. The government urges the public to pay attention to understanding this disease.
“The number is 34, and 8 have recovered,” said the Ministry of Health’s Communications and Public Services Bureau, Siti Nadia Tarmizi, via short message to Tempo.
Nadia refers to data from the Mpox Daily Report 4 November 2023 at 19.00 WIB, which is published on the Ministry of Health’s website. In the report, the spread of Mpox was in DKI Jakarta, Banten and West Java.
Most in DKI Jakarta
Case Mpox In DKI Jakarta there were 27 patients. While Banten had 5 patients, West Java had the fewest with 2 patients.
Monkeypox has been declared a World Health Emergency that is Worrying the World by the World Health Organization (WHO) in July 2022. Transmission of monkeypox can be through droplets in the form of phlegm or sneezing or saliva that contaminate the environment or hands, skin contact, wound contact, body fluids, and sexual contact.
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“Educate and avoid risky sexual behavior,” said Siti in response to the government’s new appeal. “Isolate immediately and do not have sexual relations with your partner if you are positive.”
DKI Jakarta Health Office continues to track patients
Head of the Surveillance, Epidemiology and Immunization Section of the Health Service (Dinkes) DKI Jakarta Ngabila Salama said that the 27 people who tested positive for active Mpox in Jakarta were men aged 25 to 50 years. All are infected from sexual contact.
“Everyone is the same, with mild symptoms, with a PCR positivity rate of 29 percent,” said Ngabila to Tempo via messaging application on Friday, November 3 2023
According to data provided by Ngabila, as many as 24 people are undergoing treatment and isolation in hospital. Meanwhile, the other 3 have not been isolated.
The DKI Health Office continues to carry out tracing efforts to find out close contacts that occurred from previous cases. Currently, his party notes that there are still 8 people who are suspected or suspected of having symptoms.
“Waiting for the PCR results,” said Ngabila.
Previously, the DKI Jakarta Health Office had carried out examinations on 67 other people who had close contact, but the PCR results showed negative. Meanwhile, there are 9 other people who have also had close contact, their status is positive without symptoms or asymptomatic EC.
Mpox cases recover relatively quickly and the death rate is low
Ngabila explained that overall healing in cases of monkey pox or Mpox is relatively fast, namely two to four weeks.
โOn average 3 weeks to recover. “The definition of healing is if all wounds are completely dry and new skin appears,” said Ngabila.
Death rate or case fatality rate (CFR) of monkey pox is only about one percent. The majority of deaths occur due to secondary infections and low immunity conditions in risk groups, such as MSM (Men Like Men) or Gaypregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, children, elderly.
DANIEL A. FAJRI, AISYAH AMIRA WAKANG
2023-11-05 04:23:18
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