The days pass, and the cases of monkey pox slowly increase in the territory.
Five cases of monkey pox were identified in France on Tuesday, two more than on Monday, according to the latest report from Public Health France.
The cases are located in Ile-de-France (3 cases), in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and in Occitanie.
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Public Health France does not provide more detail, but recalls that the cases "occurred mainly, but not only, in men who have sex with men, with no direct link to people returning from endemic areas".
Over 170 confirmed cases
In total, more than 170 confirmed cases of monkeypox have been reported outside Africa.
Contaminations have so far been confirmed in a dozen European countries (Spain, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, etc.) but also in Australia, Canada and the United States.
Monkeypox or "simian orthopoxvirus" is a rare disease, a less dangerous cousin of smallpox, whose pathogen can be transmitted from animals to humans and vice versa.
“Very low” risk of contagion
Its symptoms resemble, in less serious, those which one observed in the past at the subjects reached of smallpox: fever, headaches, muscular pains, dorsal, during the first five days.
Then appear rashes, lesions, pustules and finally scabs.
There is no treatment for this disease which generally heals spontaneously and whose symptoms last 14 to 21 days.
The High Authority for Health recommended on Tuesday to vaccinate contact cases at risk of infected people, including unprotected caregivers.
According to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the risk of contagion is “very low” in the population, but significant in people with multiple sexual partners.
