The first two people, considered to have had risky contact with a monkey pox patient, were vaccinated this Friday in Paris, we learned from the Directorate General of Health.
In accordance with the opinion of the High Authority for Health (HAS) issued on Tuesday, “it is a very targeted vaccination which is offered to people who have had a contact considered to be at risk”, it was indicated.
For whom exactly?
The HAS recommends "adult contacts at high risk of monkeypox".
For @SantePubliqueFr, "risky contact case" = "unprotected direct physical contact" or "unprotected contact within 2 meters for 3 hours".
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— Nicolas Berrod (@nicolasberrod) May 26, 2022
The first vaccinated, a man in his thirties and residing in Paris, who wished to remain anonymous, said he was the contact case of the first confirmed patient in France on May 20.
“I saw him on May 14 in the afternoon in an apartment in Paris.
I did not have sex with this person but I was in prolonged (physical) contact with this person, for three hours, in the same space,” he testified.
“My case was discussed because I was not exposed through sexual relations, which does not make me a red case but rather an orange one,” he explained.
These two contact cases were vaccinated at Bichat Hospital.
The HAS recommends administering the vaccine “ideally within four days after the risky contact and at most 14 days later with a two-dose schedule (or three doses in immunocompromised subjects), spaced 28 days apart”.
The incubation period for monkeypox is most often between 6 and 16 days, which can range from 5 to 21 days.
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This disease, of which several cases have been detected in Europe and North America, is a rare disease originating in Africa which is generally cured spontaneously.
In the current state of knowledge, human-to-human transmission requires close and prolonged contact between two people, and occurs mainly via saliva or pus from skin lesions formed during infection.
