A symbolic bar.
The milestone of 1,000 cases of monkeypox recorded worldwide has been crossed in non-endemic countries (it is endemic in many African countries), according to the international news agency BNO News.
The bar of 1,000 cases of #monkeypox recorded worldwide (excluding African countries where this disease is endemic) was reached on Monday afternoon.
Over 300 in the UK and 51 in France to date.
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— Nicolas Berrod (@nicolasberrod) June 6, 2022
In detail, 302 of the 1,009 confirmed cases have been identified in the United Kingdom, as well as 187 in Spain, 143 in Portugal, 80 in Canada and Germany.
The number of cases is thus increasing, since on Sunday, the WHO counted at least 780 cases in 27 non-endemic countries.
51 cases in France
According to the latest report from Public Health France dated Friday June 3, 51 cases of "Monkeypox" have been reported in France: 37 in Ile-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.
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.
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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.
