AA / Ankara
The Turkish Ministry of Health announced on Sunday that no case of Monkeypox had been detected in the country.
The ministry’s general directorate of health said monkeypox virus belongs to the “Orthopoxvirus” family and is considered an animal disease that originates from wild animals such as rodents which is sometimes transmitted to humans. male.
Turkish health authorities have pointed out that the disease can be airborne, or transmitted through contact with skin lesions, body fluids, through respiratory secretions and through contact with contaminated surfaces.
Turkish Health explained that it is a self-limiting disease and its symptoms usually disappear between 14 and 21 days.
She pointed out that the General Directorate of Public Health and Infectious Diseases in Early Warning of the Turkish Ministry of Health is monitoring developments related to the virus, exchanging information with international contacts in other countries, with the World Organization of Health and the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Recently, several Western countries have registered infections of the Monkeypox virus, including 23 cases in Spain, 20 in Portugal, while individual cases have been detected in Great Britain, the United States and Canada, in addition to an infection in Israel.
“Monkeypox” is a rare virus similar to human smallpox, which was first detected in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1970s.
“Monkey pox” causes headaches, fever and a rash that starts on the face and spreads to the rest of the body.
*Translated from Arabic by Hend Abdessamad
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