Harianjogja.com, JAKARTA – Cases of monkeypox or monkeypox continue in several countries around the world. As of September 15, 2022, there were approximately 60,394 cases of monkeypox worldwide with a total of 22 deaths from a total of 99 countries.
In America and Europe, there has been a decline in cases following the vaccination program since last July. However, monkeypox cases in America are still high. As of September 15, 2022, there were approximately 22,620 cases of monkeypox.
In Southeast Asia, most cases occurred in Singapore with 16 cases, in Thailand with 7 cases, in the Philippines with 4 cases, and in Indonesia with 1 case. The details of the development of Monkeypox in Indonesia were passed on by the spokesman for the Indonesian Ministry of Health, Dr.
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Mohammad Syahril in a virtual press conference on Friday (16/9/2022).
dr. Syahril said there was a patient who was confirmed to be infected with the monkeypox virus. This patient is a 27-year-old male from Jakarta who tested positive for monkeypox on August 19 through laboratory results. However, he has been declared healthy again and has completed self-isolation since 4 September.
Then, Dr. Syahril continued the development of monkeypox in Indonesia with 0 probable status, 2 suspected and 63 discarded as of September 15, 2022. 2 suspected patients were the same as positive patients, particularly from Jakarta, and the distribution of 63 patients with state of spread covering 10 provinces in Indonesia.
A suspect is a patient suspected of being infected with the monkeypox virus who exhibits symptoms of an acute rash with unusual causes. In addition, one or more symptoms such as headache, fever with a temperature above 38.5 degrees Celsius, lymphadenopathy, myalgia, back pain, weakness in the body, and a rash that shows no signs of other diseases also occur.
Therefore probable is a suspect patient and has various criteria or one of the criteria, such as having an epidemiological relationship with a probable case, developing symptoms, traveling to an endemic area within 21 days, positive serological results for orthopoxvirus, and no history of smallpox vaccine or orthopoxvirus infection, as well as being treated at the relevant hospital.
Meanwhile, confirmed patients are patients with positive PCR or sequencing laboratory test results and discarded are patients with negative PCR or sequencing laboratory test results.
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