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 the Ichilov hospital told AFP. Tel Aviv. 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, Spain and 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, but less severe, those observed in the past in subjects with smallpox : fever, headache, muscle pain, back pain, during the first five days. Then appear rashes, lesions, pustules and finally scabs.
Symptoms for 14 to 21 days
There is no cure for monkeypox, which usually resolves on its own 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 of the cases have been among men who have sex with men, theWorld Health Organization (WHO), which has already indicated that it wants to shed light on the transmission of the virus within the homosexual community.