Vietnam monitors smallpox cases at border gates and hospitals

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

Accordingly, WHO forecasts that monkeypox epidemic will continue to increase the number of cases in the near future. The Ministry of Health proposed the People’s Committees of the provinces and cities directly under the Central Government to direct the Department of Health and units to carry out case surveillance activities, promptly implement measures to prevent and control the epidemic, minimize the number of infections and prevent the spread of the virus. dead. Specifically:

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

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

– Actively communicate and raise people’s awareness about monkeypox and epidemic prevention and control measures as recommended by health authorities.

According to the Ministry of Health, monkeypox can be transmitted from person to person through close contact, spread through wounds, bodily fluids, droplets, and through contact with contaminated objects such as blankets and pillows. .

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). Monkeypox presents with symptoms similar to smallpox, but is more common with systemic skin lesions and enlarged lymph nodes.

According to WHO, the first case of monkeypox was detected in the UK on May 13. As of May 24, there were 131 confirmed cases of monkeypox worldwide and 106 suspected cases. Cases are sporadic in 19 countries outside of Africa.

The confirmed cases are West African monkeypox virus and have similar characteristics to the strain that was transmitted from Nigeria to several countries in 2018, 2019.

Linh Giao

The puzzling origins of monkeypoxOriginally common only in Africa, monkeypox has spread to 15 countries around the world with more than 100 cases.

Difference between Covid-19 rash and monkeypoxPatients with monkeypox develop papules, which gradually turn into vesicles. People with Covid-19 have a rash that looks like a rash or has a patch like a honeycomb.