Monkeypox can be transmitted from person to person – Life Health

Monkeypox can be spread from person to person through close contact, through wounds, bodily fluids, droplets, and through contact with contaminated objects such as blankets and pillows.

Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long has just sent a document to the People’s Committees of provinces and cities nationwide on strengthening supervision and prevention of monkeypox.

The Ministry of Health said that monkeypox was first detected in monkeys in 1958, the first case was recorded in 1970 in Congo.

Monkeypox can be spread from person to person through close contact, through wounds, bodily fluids, droplets, and through contact with contaminated objects such as blankets and pillows.

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The disease is often severe in children, pregnant women or immunocompromised people. The incubation period is 5 to 21 days (usually 6 to 13 days). Smallpox has symptoms similar to those of smallpox, but it often has systemic skin lesions and enlarged lymph nodes.

According to the World Health Organization, from the first case of monkeypox detected in the UK on May 13, 2022, as of May 21, 2022, the world has recorded 92 cases of the disease, 28 suspected cases. suspect and no deaths have been reported.

The detected cases did not have a history of travel from an endemic area and the countries where the case was recorded did not have a smallpox outbreak in the past.

The cases were identified as being infected with West African monkeypox virus and have similar characteristics to the virus that was transmitted from Nigeria to several countries in 2018, 2019.

According to the Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization predicts that monkeypox will continue to increase the number of cases in the near future.

In order to actively monitor monkeypox cases and promptly implement epidemic prevention and control measures, minimizing the number of cases and deaths, the Ministry of Health proposes the People’s Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities to direct Department of Health and related units

proactively monitor and detect suspected cases at border gates, especially those returning from countries where monkeypox is endemic.

Strengthen surveillance to detect cases of disease at medical facilities in the area, coordinate with the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Pasteur to diagnose and identify cases…