First case of monkeypox in the district of Dachau - LGL gives an assessment

Created: 06/17/2022Updated: 06/17/2022, 8:14 p.m

On Friday, June 17, the first case of monkeypox became known in the Dachau district.

According to the Dachau district office, the patient, a man under the age of 30, is doing well and is in isolation.

Dachau – First case of monkeypox in the district of Dachau.

The first case of monkeypox became known in the Dachau district today, Friday, June 17.

As the district office briefly explained when asked and with reference to data protection, the patient was under 30 years old and had just returned from a holiday trip within Europe.

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First case of monkeypox in Dachau

Because he discovered the typical smallpox rash with pustules and redness on his skin, he then went to a Munich hospital for further examination.

A PCR test, according to district office spokeswoman Sina Török, “then confirmed the infection”.

The young man, who lives alone and was also on vacation alone, is currently “in good health in domestic isolation”.

Contact persons who could have been infected by the patient have therefore not yet been identified.

The health department is still “in close contact” with the man.

Monkey pox in the district of Dachau: LGL speaks of isolated cases

In principle, the Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety (LGL) assesses the general risk of infection with monkeypox for the population as low.

So far, it has been “only isolated cases” in Bavaria and nationwide.

When the home isolation of the infected person can be ended depends on when the rash heals.

According to Török, a monkeypox patient is only “no longer contagious when the pustules become encrusted and fall off”.

The first case of monkeypox was officially confirmed in Germany on May 20th.

The Bundeswehr Institute for Microbiology in Munich had detected the monkeypox virus in a patient.

In the course of the increased attention, experts expected further evidence.