On Sunday (8th), four people were confirmed to have monkeypox in Ho Chi Minh City, bringing the total number of monkeypox infections in Ho Chi Minh City to 13. The city’s Health Department said the four patients were being treated at the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases and were in stable condition.
Vietnam has recorded 15 cases of monkeypox, including two in Binh Duong Province, adjacent to Ho Chi Minh City.
Vietnam’s first two cases of monkeypox were confirmed in October 2022. They contracted the virus while traveling to Dubai and were quarantined upon returning home. The remaining patients occurred domestically.
Health authorities have identified only one domestic patient as the source of infection, a woman in Binh Duong who was infected by her boyfriend in Ho Chi Minh City. The travel routes of the remaining patients were not revealed.
According to the city’s Center for Disease Control, monkeypox is considered a Group B infectious disease and is no longer considered an emergency, so health officials will not announce individual cases and will only report weekly and monthly total cases.
Health experts said that monkeypox is not easy to spread in the community because the virus is mostly spread through sexual contact, so if you have symptoms such as rash, blisters, fever, pain, or fatigue, you must get tested. The incubation period is 5 to 21 days.
On May 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that monkeypox is no longer a global public health emergency, nearly a year after the threat disappeared.
2023-10-09 04:26:48
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