Hubei Disease Control experts remind: Monkey acne needs to be vigilant, which can be prevented and cured

Many countries in the world report monkey acne cases. In July 2022, the WHO announced that the epidemic of the monkey acne has constituted the "emergencies of international attention". Essence Hubei Disease Control experts remind: Monkey acne needs to be vigilant and can prevent treatment.

What is a monkey acne?

MonkeyPox virus (MPXV) is a rare, distributed, ceiling clinical manifestation of acute infectious diseases caused by Monkeypox Virus (MPXV). The latent period of monkey acne is 5-21 days, mostly 6-13 days. The clinical manifestations are mainly fever, rash, and lymph nodes. Some patients may have complications, including secondary bacterial infections and encephalitis in the skin lesions. Most people can fully recover, but some people may suffer from severe illnesses. In addition, monkey acne can be prevented.

What are the way monkey acne spread?

The virus invades the human body through the mucosa and damaged skin. It is mainly infected with the respiratory tract secretions, lesions, blood, and other body fluids, or being infected by the infected animals. People are mainly transmitted through close contact, and can also be transmitted through droplets during long -term contact. Items that contact virus pollution may also be infected. The virus can also be transmitted to the fetus from a pregnant woman through the placenta. The recent epidemic shows that cases reported from multiple countries are mainly male and male contacts, people with multiple personality partners or people without sexual behaviors.

What are the symptoms of monkey acne?

After infection, fever, severe headache, lymph nodes, muscle soreness, and weakness can occur. Among them, lymph nodes are a significant feature of monkey acne; rash usually starts within 1-3 days after fever appears, and often concentrates on the face and limbs. Oral mucosa, genitals and conjunctiva and cornea are also affected. The complications of monkey acne may include secondary infection, bronchial pneumonia, purulent disease, encephalitis, and corneal infections that can subsequently cause visual loss, and even death.

What is the treatment and prognosis of monkey acne?

There are currently no anti -acne virus drugs in China. Treatment mainly includes symptomatic support treatment and secondary bacterial infection.

Monkey acne is a self -limited disease, and most of them are good. Severe cases are common in young children and low immune functions. The prognosis is related to the infected virus strains, virus exposure, past health status, and severity of complications.

How to prevent monkey acne virus infection?

(1) Personnel who are traveling or living in countries in the epidemic. Pay attention to the information of the monkey acne epidemic in the country. Avoid contact with rodents and long animals (including the blood and meat of animals), you must be cooked thoroughly before consumption. If you must contact the patients with acne, avoid close contact with the body, avoid sexual behavior with suspicious infected people, avoid common daily necessities (such as bedding, clothing, etc.), and do personal protection when you look or visit patients (such as wearing disposable at one time Latex gloves, medical protective masks, disposable isolation clothes, etc.). Pay attention to hand hygiene, use soap, hand -wash, etc. to wash your hands under the flowing water in time.

(2) Returned people and those who are about to return to my country. During the normalization of the new crown epidemic, the time of isolation and control of Chinese immigration personnel is "7 days of centralized isolation medicine observation+3 Heavenly Home Health Monitoring". Due to 5-21 days of monkey acne incubation, returnees need to do a good job of self-health monitoring within 21 days of entry. If there have been a history of contact and exposure to cases of suspicious animals and personnel or acne cases abroad, they should actively contact medical and disease control institutions in the jurisdiction to consult and report; The hospital had a good medical treatment early and took the initiative to inform the history of the doctor to live abroad to assist in diagnosis and treatment. In addition to paying attention to the above matters, those who return to China will also be reported to the entry health.

(3) Recently planned personnel to go abroad, we need to pay close attention to the epidemic of monkey acne in the country. Learn about the relevant knowledge of monkey acne prevention and treatment as soon as possible, and enhance personal awareness of disease prevention. For example, avoid contact with rodent animals and patients with monkey acne, avoid sharing items with patients, and avoid close contact with those suspected infected. Do a good job of personal hygiene. Once the symptoms such as rashes occur in unknown causes, seek medical treatment in a timely manner.

(4) Actively cooperate with the current various epidemic prevention measures and maintain good hygiene habits. When using a public toilet toilet (including the toilet in a business house), you can use disposable toilet as much as possible. You can also wipe it with a wet paper towel or a paper towel dipped in hot water before using it.

(Source: Hubei Daily)

[Edit: Yu Lina]

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