This is the first case, there has never been a monkey pox patient in the Philippines abroad

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Filipino find new cases of mpox virus no monkey trout first in the country. The Philippine Department of Health said they were waiting for test results before they could confirm the type.

The patient is a 33-year-old Filipino man with no history of travel outside the Philippines, the Department of Health said. “We are waiting for serial results and will update them once they are available,” said Department of Health spokesman Albert Domingo when asked about the virus’s severity.

The World Health Organization or WHO declared on Wednesday that monkeypox or mpox is a global public health emergency. This is the highest type of alert, after a revolution in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has spread to neighboring countries.

This new form of the virus has raised global concerns because it spreads easily through close contact. Cases of the new variant were confirmed on Thursday in Sweden and linked to a growing outbreak in Africa. The distribution in Sweden is the first outside the African continent. After Sweden, Pakistan on Friday confirmed at least one case of the mpox virus in a patient who recently returned from the Gulf country. Pakistan still does not know the type of virus.

The new case in the Philippines is the 10th laboratory-confirmed case detected by the health department. The first case occurred in July 2022.

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“The symptoms started more than a week ago with a fever, and then four days later a rash was found on the face, back, chest, trunk, groin, and palms and soles of the feet,” the Philippines Department of Health said. said in a statement.

The disease is caused by the monkeypox virus, which causes flu-like symptoms and pus-filled sores. This disease is usually mild but can be fatal. Children, pregnant women, and people with weakened immune systems, such as people with HIV, are all at higher risk of complications from chickenpox.

Reuters

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