The Massachusetts Public Health Department said Wednesday that it had confirmed a case of monkeypox virus infection in a man who recently traveled to Canada.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the institute confirmed that the infection was monkeypox on Wednesday afternoon.
State officials said they are working with the CDC and related local health committees to conduct contact tracing: “This incident poses no risk to the general public, individuals are hospitalized and in good condition. It’s in. “
The Public Health Agency of Canada issued a statement late Wednesday that it was aware of cases of monkeypox in Europe and was closely monitoring the current situation, adding that no cases have been reported at this time.
Monkeypox occurs primarily in western and central Africa, but is a mild but rare viral infection that resembles smallpox in humans. First recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the 1970s. The number of cases in West Africa has increased over the last decade.
Symptoms include fever, headaches, and skin rashes that start on the face and spread to the rest of the body.
According to Massachusetts authorities, the virus does not spread easily among humans, but after contact with body fluids, monkeypox pain, items such as bedding and clothing contaminated with body fluids and pain, or after prolonged face-to-face contact. Flügge droplets can cause infections-face contact.
This year, no cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in the United States. Texas and Maryland each reported cases of people who recently traveled to Nigeria in 2021.
The CDC also said it has been tracking multiple clusters of monkeypox reported in several countries, including Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom, within the last two weeks.
A small number of cases of monkeypox have recently been reported or suspected in the United Kingdom, Portugal and Spain.
Earlier Wednesday, Portuguese officials said they had identified five cases of infection, and Spain’s health service said it was testing 23 potential cases after the UK alerted Europe to the virus. rice field.
European health officials have been monitoring the outbreak of the disease since the UK reported the first case on May 7, and since then six more cases have been found in the country.
