Last Thursday night (28) three children were diagnosed with monkey pox (monkeypox) confirmed by Health Department of the city of São Paulo. It was not known how the virus was transmitted to the children, who are “under monitoring, with no signs of worsening” according to the secretariat.
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In a note, the Secretariat stated that it had established protocols to assist, diagnose and monitor suspected cases “for the entire public and private network” in the municipality.
In one week, since the last bulletin from the Ministry of Health, the total number of suspects and cases of the disease increased by 75,6% in Brazil. São Paulo concentrates 77,2% of all infected people in the country, totaling 823 cases.
The current outbreak motivated the WHO (World Health Organization) to declare an international public health emergency alert last Saturday (23). The organization stated on Tuesday (26) that the disease situation in Brazil today is “very worrying”.
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Until the previous day, the country was 7th on the list of the most “contaminated” in the world, with 813 confirmed cases.
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Want to know more?
- Mellanie Fontes-Dutra did a 🧶 thread on Twitter gathering information and a timeline about the disease:
This thread will try to compile some information about monkeypox (or monkeypox, which can also be transmitted by other animals):
🔹What is it and why are we seeing it now.
🔹How it gets infected, symptoms, vaccination.
🔹How to continue taking care of yourself right now.– Mellanie Fontes-Dutra (Mell) 🌻 (@mellziland) May 23, 2022
(Feature photo: Flickr/ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases NIAID)
