In the former and renowned Hospital de Isolamento de São Paulo, at the time under the leadership of physician Emílio Ribas, the current Instituto de Infectologia Emílio Ribas treated thousands of smallpox patients before this disease was considered eradicated in Brazil.
A few days ago, a 41-year-old patient from Spain was admitted to the institution suspected of having monkeypox.
The diagnosis, based on the clinical examination, indicated that it was monkeypox, which was confirmed by the Adolfo Lutz Institute in laboratory tests.
Under the name monkeypox (monkey pox), the American Medical Association’s journal Jama updates information on the disease, gathered by Emily Harris.
Monkeypox virus was first isolated in 1958 and until 1970 the disease was not recognized among humans.
The first carrier of this virus was a child from the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the WHO (World Health Organization).
The mortality rate from this disease is low and patients are infected by the clade (organisms originating from a single common ancestor), according to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States).
So far, no deaths associated with monkeypox outbreaks outside Africa have been reported.
In the past five years, eight cases have been confirmed of people carrying monkeypox out of Africa from Nigeria, where it resurfaced in 2017, reports Emily Harris.
On May 21, 92 people were confirmed to have been infected in 12 countries in Europe and North America.
According to the WHO, despite the increase in cases and human-to-human transmission of the virus, the risk to the population remains low.
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