The First Monkeypox Case in Indonesia and its Symptoms
8/20/2022
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The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) confirmed the first case of monkeypox or monkeypox in Indonesia.
From the results of the examination carried out on 23 suspected monkeypox patients, one of them was confirmed positive. While 22 others were negative.
"One confirmed from DKI Jakarta, male (age) 27 years old," said Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) Spokesperson Mohammad Syahril at the Monkeypox First Confirmed Patient Discovery Press Conference , Saturday (20/8/2022).
Syahril explained, the first confirmed patient with monkeypox was discovered after conducting a number of examinations and was diagnosed on Friday (19/8/2022) night.
"Currently, the patient is in good condition. In terms of Covid-19, the symptoms are mild. The patient does not need to be treated in an isolation room, but enough to self-isolate at home," he said again.
Based on Syahril's statement, the patient was confirmed to have monkeypox after traveling from abroad.
However, Syahril was reluctant to specify the location of the country the patient had recently visited.
Symptoms of monkey pox
Syahril added, a number of symptoms appeared and felt by one patient who was confirmed to have monkeypox.
The patient, he added, felt a number of symptoms of monkeypox, including fever, enlarged glands, to rashes on the palms of the hands and feet.
"On the 14th (August) there was a fever, then there was also gland enlargement. But he was in good condition, meaning he was not seriously ill," he said again.
For information, the symptoms of monkeypox are divided into two periods, namely the invasion period of 0-5 days and the eruption period of 1-3 days with the following details:
- Symptoms 0-5 days : high fever, cephalgia or severe headache, enlarged lymph nodes / lymph, muscle pain, and asthenia or body weakness.
- Symptoms 1-3 days : the appearance of rashes on the skin, especially in the face, feet, palms, genitals, and mucous membranes of the eyes.
Monkeypox transmission
According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), transmission of monkeypox human-to-human
"Transmission monkeypox is primarily through direct contact with patients. It can be by shaking hands, hugging, or maybe sleeping together and also contact with objects or items around the patient," explained Syahril.
Transmission can also occur through contact with body fluids, monkeypox wounds, items that have been contaminated with fluids or wounds, as well as through respiratory droplets after prolonged close contact.
According to him, monkeypox can be transmitted to anyone. That is, there is no group at risk.
Furthermore, Syahril added that this monkeypox could heal by itself after 2-4 weeks after the incubation period was over.
Of note, the patient did not have additional infections, and had no comorbidities.
Based on countries reporting cases of monkeypox, only about 10 percent of patients are hospitalized.
As previously reported, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an outbreak of monkeypox ( monkeypox ) as a global health emergency.
Monkeypox is the second outbreak that has been categorized as a global health emergency in the last two years, after Covid-19.
WHO assesses monkeypox as a significant threat, so an international response is needed to prevent its wider spread.
Quoted from CNBC , more than 16,000 cases of monkeypox have been reported in about 70 countries throughout 2022.
The number of confirmed infections rose 77 percent from late June to early July 2022.
The current outbreak of monkeypox is very unusual because it is widespread in North American and European countries, two regions that have never previously reported the disease.
Historically, monkeypox has spread at low rates in remote parts of West and Central Africa.
Europe is currently the epicenter of the global outbreak, with more than 80 percent of confirmed infections worldwide by 2022.
Meanwhile, the US has reported more than 2,500 cases of monkeypox so far in 44 states, Washington, DC and Puerto Rico.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the risk posed by monkeypox was moderate globally, but the threat was high in Europe.
"There is clearly a risk that the virus will continue to spread around the world, although it is unlikely to disrupt global trade or travel at this time," Tedros said.
