Monkeypox patients should be quarantined and healthcare professionals should wear PPE: Public Health Ontario

Monkeypox Patients should be quarantined and those who treat them should wear personal protective equipment (PPE). Ontario Public Health To tell.

Health agencies made a set of recommendations for the treatment of monkeypox patients in health care settings throughout the state in an infection prevention and control document issued earlier this month.

In DocumentPublic Health Ontario, monkeypox virus is transmitted “from animal to human (zoonoses) or from person to person by contact with infected lesions, skin rash, body fluids, respiratory secretions” Said there is a possibility.

“It can also be transmitted by contact with a substance contaminated with a virus,” the document states, through clothing and bedding.

Historically, monkeypox “has limited human-to-human transmission,” according to the Ontario Public Health Service.

Authorities said the “major” mode of infection among people was due to respiratory secretions or skin lesions or direct contact with contaminated substances.

“However, the involvement of the respiratory system during infection, the potential for prodromal infections, and the similarity to smallpox virus (smallpox) suggest a possible aerial infection,” the document said. I am.

According to the document, the average incubation period is 7-14 days, but can range from 5 to 21 days.

According to health agencies, people “most commonly transmit from the onset of the first lesion (usually the tongue or mouth) to the fall of the scab and the formation of new skin.”

However, the document states that “before the rash develops”, “it can be transmitted” during early symptoms such as fever, malaise, and headaches.

In addition to “daily practice,” the Ontario Department of Public Health needs to use some “additional precautions” used for aerial, droplet, and contact viruses in the medical setting when treating monkeypox patients. Said there is.

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Authorities said patients with the disease should be placed in an aerial isolation room with negative pressure ventilation.

If such a room is not available, the patient must be placed in a single room “with the door closed” and equipped with “private toilet facilities”.

“If neither option is feasible, give the patient an acceptable amount of medical mask on the nose and mouth, or cover exposed skin lesions with clothing, sheets, or gowns as much as possible to the surrounding individuals. Precautions should be taken to minimize the exposure of the skin. ”Read the document.

Healthcare professionals treating patients with monkey pox should also wear PPE, including fit-tested and seal-checked N-95 respiratory organs, gloves, gowns, and eye protection such as goggles and face shields.

According to Public Health Ontario, these additional precautions should be maintained “until all scabs have fallen and new skin is formed.”

Recommendations were made when Toronto health officials were first investigating suspected cases of the virus in the city.

On Saturday, Toronto Public Health said a man in his 40s who had recently contacted someone who had traveled to Montreal was being investigated.

In a news release, the ministry said, “Although the risk of transmission to the general public is low, people who visited the event on May 14 at the Axis Club on 772 College Street and the Woody’s Bar on 476 Church Street said on May 13. And may have been exposed on the 14th. “

On Tuesday, Rosamund Pike, Secretary-General of Smallpox within the World Health Organization (WHO) Emergency Program, said there were 131 confirmed cases of monkeypox and 106 more suspicious cases of monkeypox worldwide, but recently. The outbreak was “containable”.

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