The Ministry of Health (Minsa) reported this Monday, August 8, that the confirmed cases of the disease rose to 505 monkeypox in Peru. It was specified that the infected correspond to Metropolitan Lima (425), Lima Provinces (5), Callao (35), Ica (3), La Libertad (23), Ancash (2), Arequipa (2), Ucayali (1), Tacna (1), Loreto (1) , Piura (1), Cusco (2) and Junin (2).
Through Twitter, the Minsa pointed out that all patients receive assistance and 185 of them have already been discharged. In addition, the identification of your contacts is carried out.
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The health authorities are carrying out the identification of suspicious contacts of those who have tested positive for monkeypox.
The Minsa urged the population to maintain the prevention measures already disseminated by the health authorities to avoid a case of this typeThese include reducing contact with people suspected of having the infection, washing your hands frequently, wearing a mask correctly, maintaining social distancing, and isolating yourself if you present the characteristic symptoms of this disease.
What are the symptoms of monkeypox?
- It begins with fever, headache (headache) and fatigue.
- Presence of adenopathies (swollen lymph nodes) in the neck, armpits and groin.
- Skin lesions that evolve uniformly.
- The incubation time is usually between 7 and 14 days, and can be extended from 5 to 21 days.
Risk groups and complications
The Minsa points out that “Monkeypox virus infection usually does not lead to complications”. However, he adds that the presence of the following factors may be related to greater severity with hospitalization evaluation:
- Kids.
- Pregnant women.
- HIV patients, especially without adequate control.
- Immunosuppressed.
- People with chronic skin lesions or recent burns (due to the risk of bacterial contamination).
situational room
The new monkeypox situational room shows the progress of daily cases classified by place (district and province), age, gender and provides detailed information on the most recurrent symptoms of the registered cases.
In addition, it offers a graphic report on the projections in the increase or decrease of cases.
To access this information, the Minsa has made the portal available to the population: https://www.dge.gob.pe/sala-monkeypox/
Monkeypox Vaccines
The head of the Minsa, Jorge Lopezreported that his portfolio is still in talks with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) for the purchase of vaccines against monkeypox.
He indicated that the decision to buy vaccines is not unilateral and that there is a committee of experts that is in charge of deciding whether the country needs the doses against this disease or not.
“What we have to keep in mind is that we have a team, a committee of experts, which is in charge of saying whether we need the vaccines or not. Quite apart from that we have a team, because the decision is not only on my part, we are also in talks with PAHO, which is the only entity in charge of purchasing vaccines”, He specified in statements to the press.
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