So far in our country no case of the disease with domestic transmission has been found.
Every Thursday there will be a weekly update by EODY on the cases of smallpox in the country.
Yesterday, it was announced dsecond case. According to EODY, on Saturday it was held at the Central Laboratory of Public Health, sample check a patient with a clinical picture compatible with monkey pox, for non-variola orthopox virus species, including the monkey pox virus and was positive.
According to EODY, This is a 47-year-old patient with a recent trip to Spain. Genetic material will be sent to the Microbiology laboratory of the Medical School of AUTh for the identification of the non Variola ORTHOPOX species and the further phylogenetic analysis. The patient is treated in isolationin steady state.
The first case it was 59-year-old patient on a recent trip to Portugal. It is worth noting, in fact, that no case of the disease has been found in our country so far with domestic transmission.
According to the available epidemiological data so far, the risk for the general population is still low, as the disease is usually mild and self-limiting and the disease is characterized by relatively low transmissibility, says EODY.
