A child from Prague probably brought monkey pox from Spain
She apparently contracted monkeypox with a four-year-old child in Prague while on vacation in Spain. According to medical professionals, the course of the disease is mild. No one else in the family or in the facility the child attends has yet had monkeypox.
Monkey pox confirmed by Prague hygienists in a four-year-old child in one of Prague’s kindergartens this week. This is the first caught infection in a child in the Czech Republic. In Europe and beyond, the monkeypox infection in children has already been confirmed again.
“The result of the skin sample taken [puchýřku] showed only slight positivity. Nevertheless, as a precautionary measure, not only that the HSHMP [Hygienická stanice hl. města Praha] wrote the relevant epidemiological investigation, but also set up adequate anti-epidemic measures for specific individuals and in the given kindergarten,” they describe Prague hygienists.
They have already taken samples of biological material from the nasopharynx and blood for a more accurate laboratory diagnosis of the illness of the child and his family. According to hygienists, the results of swabs from the nasopharynx show negativity. And that for all persons at higher risk of infection.
“The results of the blood tests will not be known until next week. Until then, all anti-epidemic measures remain in force,” supplied by Prague hygiene.
Hygiene excludes contagion from the family
Regarding the sources of monkeypox infection, hygienists claim that the current epidemiological investigation excludes the possibility of the child being infected within the family. Rather, it seems that the child was infected with the monkeypox virus in some of the holiday destinations in Spain, where the virus spreads more widely than in the Czech Republic.
“The family vacationed in several places in Spain,” hygienists said.
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From the World Health Organization reports [WHO] and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control [ECDC] it follows that infection can also occur through contact with materials where the monkeypox virus adheres. In practice, for example, from clothes, dishes and hygiene items.
The child and the others are supervised by medical personnel
The small patient stays in home isolation according to hygiene. His state of health is under professional control and the course of his illness is mild. Likewise, his closest relatives are currently spending time in preventive quarantine. Anti-epidemic measures, which everyone knows well from the times of the covid epidemic, did not escape even kindergarten, the child goes to school.
“As part of the anti-epidemic measures in the kindergarten, health supervision was ordered, and the level of disinfection of all premises was increased,” hygienists describe.
The kindergarten staff now pay more attention to consistent hand hygiene, and they strictly follow the handling of bedding and towels. For some time, children and staff who came into contact with an infected child remain in the school, separated from other classes, including meals.
Monkey pox spread to Europe from Africa
Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by infection with the monkeypox virus.
“Monkeypox virus belongs to the Orthopoxvirus genus of the Poxviridae family. The genus Orthopoxvirus includes variola virus [způsobuje pravé neštovice]vaccinia virus [používaný ve vakcíně proti pravým neštovicím] cowpox virus,” zooms in on his own websites disease agent US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC].
Scientists first discovered monkeypox in colonies of monkeys kept for research in 1958. At that time, there were two outbreaks of the disease, which at first glance looked very much like smallpox. This is where the name monkey pox comes from.
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Doctors confirmed the first case of monkeypox in humans in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since then, monkeypox has been reported in humans in several other countries in Central and West Africa. Mainly in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Liberia, Nigeria, Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone. Most of the infected are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
As a result of increasing international travel and transport of animals, monkeypox subsequently occurred outside the African region. Specifically in the United States, Israel, Singapore and the aforementioned United Kingdom.
Monkey pox looks like smallpox
CDC experts say they still don’t know the natural reservoir of monkeypox. They know that the virus is transmitted by African rodents and subhuman primates. That is, monkeys, from which humans are most often infected. Most often through contact, respiratory tract, mucosa [okem, nosem, ústy] or by biting and stabbing.
According to the CDC, monkeypox is very similar to the smallpox we know. In the first days of infection, fever, headache, muscle aches, chills and general exhaustion appear.
“The main difference between the symptoms of smallpox and monkeypox is that monkeypox causes swollen lymph nodes [lymfadenopatie]while smallpox does not,” according to the CDC.
The incubation period for monkeypox is usually between 7 and 14 days. The longest then within 21 days. Within about three days of the fever, the patient develops a rash that often starts on the face and then spreads to other parts of the body. The illness lasts two to four weeks. There is currently no effective and safe treatment for monkeypox. According to the CDC, monkeypox in Africa kills one in ten people infected.
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