There are 11 cases of monkeypox in the Czech Republic, the first outside of Prague in the Ústí Region
Update: 07/08/2022 16:03
Issued by: 08/07/2022, 16:03
Prague/Ústí nad Labem – A total of 11 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in the Czech Republic, the last three were added this week. The State Health Institute (SZÚ) informed about this in a press release today. The first person infected outside of Prague is from the Ústí Region. No other sample is currently being investigated by the institute. Spain, Germany or Great Britain depending information The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has recorded over 1,000 cases.
The previous nine infected were Czechs or foreigners permanently living in Prague. “Furthermore, today we marked as positive a sample from a patient from the Ústí Region, we informed both the Masaryk Hospital in Ústí nad Labem and the Regional Hygiene Station, which is investigating the case further epidemiologically,” said Radomíra Radomíra, head of the Department of Respiratory, Intestinal and Exanthematic Viral Infections of the SZÚ . Limberkova
The Regional Hygiene Station in Ústí nad Labem conducted the first investigation, which revealed that a resident of the Ústí Region brought the disease with him from a vacation abroad. “It is good for us that the person traveled alone, so there is no risk of spreading the disease,” regional hygiene director Lenka Šimůnková told ČTK. According to the findings of the hygienists, the infected person lives alone. “The patient is in isolation at home, he does not have a serious course, I could soon return to the work process,” she said.
According to Limberková, the results of the investigation of new cases are accelerated by the fact that every new case no longer needs to be verified with an electron microscope. To confirm positivity, the PCR method is used, in which laboratories compare the sample with positive material, similar to the case of the coronavirus.
In Europe, almost 5,950 cases from 33 countries were reported by Tuesday this week. In France, one case was confirmed in a child, the siblings are being examined. “Many of the reported cases (…) are people aged 31 to 40, and the vast majority of those infected are men,” Jan Kynčl, head of the Department of Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases of the SZÚ, commented on the European data.
According to him, most cases are rash, accompanied by fever, sore throat, vomiting, diarrhea, chills, pain in or headache. “No deaths have been reported so far,” he added.