The Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control announced that a 34-year-old man had monkeypox and had no contact with foreigners or recent overseas travel.
On October 1, officials from the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control (HCDC) announced that a patient living in Binh Chan Province came to the Ho Chi Minh City Dermatology Hospital for examination with suspected signs of illness. The hospital collected samples and sent them to the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, where they tested positive for monkeypox on September 29. The patient was isolated for treatment.
This is the fifth case of monkeypox in Vietnam.
HCDC investigates travel history and compiles a list of people who have been in close contact with the patient within 21 days before onset of illness. People who have been in close contact with the patient should monitor their health at home for 21 days and report any symptoms to the public health center. Currently, they are maintaining normal health and showing no signs of disease.
People living with the patient were instructed to clean and disinfect their homes and personal belongings. The health sector is continuing epidemiological investigations and monitoring the health of patients and their contacts.
Last week, a 25-year-old man temporarily residing in Ho Chi Minh City was found to have monkeypox. The patient is currently in isolation for treatment and his health condition is stable. My girlfriend, who lives in Binh Duong, also suffered from this disease. The remaining contacts showed no signs of illness. Neither patient has traveled abroad or been in contact with foreigners in the past 21 days (incubation period).
Currently, the infection route of the recent case is unknown.
Health experts believe that domestically transmitted cases of monkeypox demonstrate that the disease has entered Vietnam and is spreading in the community amid a surge in new cases in Thailand and China.
HCDC advises that if you or someone around you notice symptoms of a suspected illness, you should immediately go to a health facility to receive advice, diagnosis and appropriate treatment. Sick people must strictly follow the instructions of medical staff during treatment, reduce complications, and strictly implement infection prevention measures.
It is spread from person to person through close contact (including sexual contact, face-to-face, skin-to-skin, mouth-to-mouth, or mouth-to-skin contact) with someone who has a monkeypox rash. People who have symptoms of an acute rash of unknown cause accompanied by one or more suspicious symptoms such as fever above 38 degrees, lymph node swelling, headache, muscle pain, back pain, or weakness should proactively contact a medical institution in a timely manner. At the same time, you should actively self-isolate and avoid sexual intercourse.
Avoid close contact with people who have monkeypox. Avoid direct contact with wounds, body fluids, droplets, objects, and instruments contaminated with pathogens. If you have or suspect a disease at your residence or workplace, you must notify the health authorities and receive timely advice and treatment, and you must not treat yourself arbitrarily.
The monkeypox epidemic broke out in May 2022 and appeared in countries where the virus had never spread before, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Belgium, Thailand, India, and Spain. To date, more than 90,000 cases have been recorded worldwide. In the case of monkeypox, most patients are young men, and most of them have same-sex sexual relations. On July 23, 2022, WHO declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern, classified as a dangerous infectious disease.
Currently, there is no vaccine or specific treatment for monkeypox in Vietnam, only a smallpox vaccine. The Ministry of Health has included monkeypox on the list of group B infectious diseases, which are one of the dangerous infectious diseases that can spread rapidly and cause death.
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2023-10-01 12:30:46
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