Israel: First case of monkeypox detected – 20 Minutes

This announcement follows the detection in several European and North American countries of cases of this disease usually endemic in West Africa. He is a 30-year-old man who recently returned from Western Europe, a spokesman for Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv told AFP. On 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 United, Spain or even Sweden have identified cases. 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 smallpox: fever, headaches, muscular pains, dorsal, during the first five days. Then appear rashes, lesions, pustules and finally scabs. Symptoms lasting 14 to 21 days There is no treatment for monkey pox, which usually heals spontaneously 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.