Smallpox monkeys, three confirmed cases in Italy. According to WHO data, there are eight EU countries in which the virus has been reported
While increasing in various European countries i virus infections of the monkeypox, also in Italy the confirmed cases rise to three. According to the WHO data at least eight European countries have reported this type of infection, about eighty total cases, in addition to the USA, Australia and Canada.
The situation, however, reassure the experts, is not arousing at the particular moment alarm and also the possibility that it may become necessary to carry out a vaccination of close contacts with the smallpox vaccine appears, today, unlikely.
In this regard, the director of the Infectious Disease Division of Spallanzaniin an interview with Corriere della Sera clarifies: “We were ready, we expected the monkeypox sooner or later he would also arrive here. We had never seen or faced it before, whether it was native or imported patients “. After the isolation,” blood tests were conducted and then swabs, both skin on lesions and nasopharyngeal “, explained director Nicastro The tests are the same as those foreseen also to ascertain the positivity of a patient al COVID-19: “This virus is also transmitted through biological fluids”.
The experts of the Spallanzani they also stressed that man-to-man transmission characterizes most of the cases found but the disease “cannot be defined as a sexually transmitted disease and that it concerns in particular the homosexuals. At the moment we know that it concerns close contacts “. Meanwhile, a first case has also been confirmed in France and Germany, and in Spain there are 30 confirmed or suspected cases and several seem to be associated with a sauna in the Madrid region. instead at 20 infections in the United Kingdom and the British government found extra doses of smallpox vaccines, “also effective against monkeypox.”
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