The monkey's smallpox has arrived in Israel: The Ministry of Health is convening an emergency hearing
The epidemic team headed by Dr. Boaz Lev will hold a special discussion at the end of Shabbat. This, after the first case of the virus was discovered last night at Ichilov Hospital, among a man in his 30s, who returned from a trip to Western Europe and arrived at the emergency room with suspicious lesions.
Yoav Itiel
21/05/2022
Saturday, 21 May 2022, 17:11 Updated: 17:18
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A man suffering from monkey pox in the Congo (Photo: Reuters, CDC / Brian WJ Mahy)
The epidemiological team of the Ministry of Health will convene tonight (Saturday) for an urgent discussion regarding the spread of monkey pox in Israel.
The hearing, which will be led by team leader Dr. Boaz Lev, will take place a day after the first case of the disease was discovered in Israel.
The first patient diagnosed in Israel is a 30-year-old man who returned from a trip to Western Europe It is easy and he is hospitalized for evaluation and supervision in an isolation room.
Yesterday the Ministry of Health updated that its people are conducting an epidemiological investigation and coordinating with Ichilov Hospital the transfer of a clinical specimen to confirm the diagnosis at the biological institute. LGBT, but not just from the community.
The Ministry of Health called on those who had returned from abroad and developed a fever and a blistering rash to see a doctor.
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The new viral disease is bothering health organizations in different countries, mainly due to its ability to pass from human to human, unlike in the past.
This morning the World Health Organization updated that more than 80 cases of monkey pox have been diagnosed in at least 12 countries around the world.
Yesterday, the organization said that 50 more suspicious cases are currently being investigated - without specifying the names of the countries where the cases were diagnosed - and warned that more and more cases will be reported in the coming days.
Cases have so far been diagnosed in nine European countries, as well as in the United States, Canada, Australia and Israel - where there is a risk of a sick person.
Monkey pox is especially common in remote areas of Central and West Africa.
The disease is a non-serious viral infection that usually heals within a few weeks.
The virus does not spread easily between people, and the danger to the general public is very low.
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