Supianto | Sunday, 05/06/2022 19:16 WIB
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The palms of a monkeypox case patient from Lodja, a town located within the Katako-Kombe Health Zone, are seen during a health investigation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1997. Brian WJ Mahy/CDC/Handout via REUTERS
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JAKARTA, Jurnas.com – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), United States of America (USA) said it was aware of more than 700 cases of monkeypox (monkeypox) globally, including 21 in Indonesia United States of America (AS).
Quoted from AFP, 16 of the first 17 cases were among people identified as men who had sex with men, according to the report CDC new, and 14 are considered travel related.
All patients are recovering or have recovered, and there are no fatal cases.
“There are also some cases in United States of America that we know relate to known cases,” said the deputy director of the Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology CDCJennifer McQuiston told reporters by telephone.
“We also have at least one case in United States of America who have no travel relationship or know how they acquired their infection.”
Monkeypox is a rare disease related to smallpox, but not as severe as smallpox, causing a spreading rash, fever, chills, and pain, among other symptoms.
Generally confined to west and central Africa, cases have been reported in Europe since May and the number of affected countries has grown since then.
Canada also released new figures on Friday, counting 77 confirmed cases – nearly all of them detected in the province of Quebec, where the vaccine has already been delivered.
Although its new spread may be linked to certain gay festivals in Europe, monkeypox is not considered a sexually transmitted disease, with the main risk factor being close skin-to-skin contact with someone with monkeypox sores.
A person is contagious until all sores scab and new skin forms.
The White House’s senior director for global health security and biodefense division Raj Panjabi added that 1,200 vaccines and 100 treatment courses had been delivered to US states, where they were offered to close contact with those infected.
There are currently two official vaccines: ACAM2000 and JYNNEOS, which were originally developed against smallpox.
Even though smallpox has been eliminated, the US keeps the vaccine in strategic national reserves in case it is used as a biological weapon.
JYNNEOS is the more modern of the two vaccines, with fewer side effects.
“We continue to have more than enough vaccines available,” Dawn O’Connell, assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the Department of Health and Human Services, told reporters.
In late May, CDC said it had 100 million doses of ACAM200 and 1,000 doses of JYNNEOS available, but O’Connell said Friday that the numbers had shifted, though he couldn’t reveal exact figures for strategic reasons.
CDC has also allowed two antivirals used to treat smallpox, TPOXX and Cidofovir, to be reused to treat monkeypox.
“Anyone can get monkeypox and we are carefully monitoring monkeypox which may be spreading in any population, including those who do not identify as men who have sex with men,” McQuiston said.
“Because of that, CDC is doing special outreach in the LGBT community,” he added.
The suspected case “must be anyone with the characteristics of a new rash,” or anyone who meets high suspicion criteria such as relevant travel, close contact, or being a man who has sex with men.
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