São Paulo confirmed this Saturday (11) the second case of monkeypox in the state. The patient is a 29-year-old man, who is isolated at his residence in Vinhedo (85 km from SP).
The case is considered imported, since the patient has a history of traveling to Portugal and Spain and had the symptoms and the first skin lesions still in Europe.
The first case of the disease was confirmed on Wednesday (8) also in a 41-year-old man who had traveled to the same countries. He remains hospitalized in isolation at the Instituto de Infectologia Emílio Ribas, with good elution of the clinical picture, according to the state government.
The positive result of this second case was confirmed by a Spanish laboratory, after the man arrived in Brazil this Wednesday, according to the Secretary of State for Health.
There is still another case under investigation since last week, of a 26-year-old woman living in the capital of São Paulo. In this case, the patient has no travel history to other countries.
Across the country, there are at least eight suspected cases of monkeypox under investigation, according to a statement from the ministry released on Wednesday. These are people who live in Santa Catarina, Ceará, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Rondônia and São Paulo.
The federal government created a situation room to monitor the progress of the disease.
Worldwide, the WHO (World Health Organization) counts more than 1,000 confirmed cases in 29 countries. No deaths were recorded.
The disease is caused by monkeypox, a virus of the genus orthopoxvirus. Another pathogen that is also of this genus is the one that causes smallpox, a disease eradicated in 1980.
Although they have their similarities, there are differences between the two diseases. One of them is lethality: smallpox killed about 30% of those infected. Monkeypox, on the other hand, has a mortality rate of between 3% and 6%, according to the WHO.
The most common symptoms appear within six to 13 days after exposure, but can take up to three weeks. People who get sick often have a fever, headache, back and muscle pain, swollen lymph nodes, and general exhaustion.
About one to three days after the fever, most people also develop a painful rash that is characteristic of this virus genus. The rash can start on the patient’s face, hands, feet, inside the mouth or on Organs genitals and progress to the rest of the body.
The disease was already known, but had been recorded mainly in African countries. What has the scientific community on alert was the rapid spread of the virus to other countries outside Africa.
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