A first case of monkey pox has been detected in Marseille, according to information from La Provence and France Bleu Provence.
It is a hospital agent officiating in a hospital in Marseille, who is “isolated and is doing well”, according to a press release from the management of Public Assistance - Hospitals of Marseille (AP-HM).
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“People who have been in close contact with this patient have been identified and receive information from the health authorities on what to do”, specifies the press release from the AP-HM, which judges “the probability of contamination to other personnel (…) negligible”.
No patient is also “considered at risk of transmission”.
At least 780 cases in 27 non-endemic countries
According to the latest report from Public Health France dated Friday June 3, 51 cases of "Monkeypox" have been reported in France: 37 in Île-de-France, 6 in Occitanie, 4 in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, 2 in Normandy, 1 in Hauts-de-France and 1 in Centre-Val de Loire.
WHO records at least 780 cases in 27 non-endemic countries.
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.
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 usually heals spontaneously and whose symptoms last 14 to 21 days.
The High Authority for Health has recommended vaccinating 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.
