There is no treatment for this disease, which generally heals spontaneously.
Le Monde with AFP
After several Western countries, including France, Germany, Great Britain, the United States, Spain and Sweden, Israel and Switzerland report monkey in a human.
In Israel, the patient is a 30-year-old man who has recently returned from Western Europe, a spokesman for Tel Aviv Hospital in France-Presse (AFP) told AGRIV. Friday, the Israeli Ministry of Health said that this man, whose symptoms are light, had been in contact with a patient abroad.
On the Switzerland side, he is a person living in the canton of Bern, but who was exposed to the virus abroad, announced the health management of the canton of Bern on Saturday. Tracing contacts, in order to identify possible transmission channels, has been carried out, said the cantonal authorities in a press release.
The infected person is followed by ambulatory and is isolated at his home. All contacts have been informed, the authorities said. This first case suspected of a variety of the monkey was reported on Friday. Laboratory analyzes carried out confirmed the suspicion on Saturday afternoon.
The vario of the monkey or “similar orthopoxvirosis” is a rare disease whose pathogen can be transmitted from animals to humans and vice versa.
symptoms which last from 14 to 21 days
His symptoms are very serious like those who were observed in the past in subjects with smallpox: fever, headache, muscle pain, dorsal, in the first five days. Then appear rashes, lesions, pustulas and finally crusts. There is no treatment for the variolate of the monkey, which generally heals spontaneously, and whose symptoms last from 14 to 21 days.
Interhuman transmission can result from contacts with infected secretions of respiratory tract, skin lesions from an infected subject or objects recently contaminated by biological liquids or materials from the lesions of a patient.