ORGANIZATION The World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned that the monkeypox virus is starting to spread among vulnerable groups, such as pregnant women, immunocompromised people and children.
As reported by Livemint, WHO is investigating reports of children infected with monkeypox. There are children affected monkey poxtwo cases in England, then in Spain and France.
None of the cases in children had severe monkeypox. However, this is a warning that monkeypox is starting to attack children.
Spokesman for the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes), Mohammad Syahril explained, monkeypox can be transmitted from mother to baby through transmission or the placenta.
Well, the incubation period for monkeypox is 5 to 13 days or 5 to 21 days. In which two periods, the first invasion period, occurs 0 to 5 days of high fever, severe headache, and there is a lump or enlarged lymph nodes in the neck, then the armpit, or groin.
Second, the eruption period, occurs 1 to 3 days after fever, rashes occur on the skin, rashes on the face, palms, feet, mucosa, genitals, and mucous membranes of the eyes.
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“This monkeypox can heal itself after 2-4 weeks after the incubation period is complete. This disease will heal itself is not too severe. Of countries that report monkeypox cases, only about 10% of patients are hospitalized,” said Syahril.
Until now there have been no cases of death caused by monkeypox in countries that have reported.
“We are advised to remain calm and remain vigilant because this is also very contagious and uncomfortable for all of us,” he said.
The thing that needs to be considered, continued Syahril, is the presence of complications, namely secondary infection, bronchopneumonia, and sepsis, encephalitis, corneal infection that causes blindness.
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