District of Fürstenfeldbruck: First case of monkeypox confirmed
Created: 2022-06-29Updated: 2022-06-29 2:43 p.m
By: Lisa Fischer
The first case of an infection with monkeypox was confirmed in the district of Fürstenfeldbruck.
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The first case of the monkeypox virus has become known in the district of Fürstenfeldbruck.
The district office reported on Wednesday.
District
– According to the district office, the first case of a district citizen being infected with monkeypox was confirmed on Wednesday (June 29).
According to the district authority, it is a middle-aged male.
It is unclear where the person concerned was infected.
Close contacts have been identified and appropriate measures have been taken.
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Monkeypox, which has been registered in various countries outside of Africa since May 2022, is usually only transmitted from person to person through close contact.
According to the current state of knowledge, transmission via droplets in the respiratory tract only occurs in the case of direct close contact ("face to face"), transmission via aerosols is unlikely.
As the Fürstenfeldbruck district office further reports, monkeypox is not usually considered very contagious because it requires close physical contact with someone who is contagious (e.g. skin to skin, prolonged face-to-face contact).
"Those affected are usually contagious for up to about three weeks as long as they have symptoms such as fever, headache, muscle and back pain and swollen lymph nodes," the statement said.
Spots and pustules appear after the fever, which crust over time and fall off.
A risk to the health of the general population in the district is currently assessed as low.
You can find more current news from the district of Fürstenfeldbruck at Merkur.de/Fürstenfeldbruck.
