The Ministry of Health confirmed this Sunday (12) the third case of monkeypox in Brazil. The patient is a 51-year-old man who lives in Porto Alegre (RS).
The man has a history of traveling to Portugal, returning to Brazil on the 10th of this month. He is in home isolation, along with his contacts, has a stable clinical condition, without complications and is being monitored by the state and municipal health departments.
“All containment and control measures were adopted immediately after the communication that it was a suspected case of monkeypox, with the isolation of the patient and tracing of their contacts, both nationally and on the international flight, which had the support of Anvisa. (National Health Surveillance Agency),” the ministry said in a statement.
At the moment, Brazil has three confirmed cases, two in São Paulo and one in Rio Grande do Sul. Another six cases are under investigation. All remain isolated and under monitoring.
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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