Perú; reinforced its vigilance at airports, ports and border crossings due to the increase in cases of monkeypox in different countries and the high risk of importing the disease, informed the company. on Sunday the Ministry of Health.
“The first thing is to be vigilant with the identification of cases and especially the information from people who come from other places, mainly from areas where there are cases or from endemic areas of Africa,” the director of Public Health Surveillance, César Munayco, told the press. that foreign passengers, coming from countries such as Spain, Canada, the United States, Argentina, endemic areas of Africa, among other nations with confirmed cases, “must fill out a form with the objective that the ministry can carry out the respective follow-up”.
The specialist explained that generally “the cases arrive in the incubation period, that is, they can arrive without symptoms and only when they enter the country can they present them.”
Peru; issued An epidemiological alert was issued on May 20 in public and private health centers throughout the country in order for them to identify, notify and investigate possible imported cases of monkeypox.
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It is an infectious disease caused by a virus transmitted to humans by infected animals. Person-to-person transmission is possible, but is considered rare.
The disease was identified It first appeared in humans in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and is now considered endemic in a dozen African countries.
Its appearance in non-Endemic countries ;micos worries the experts. So far confirmed cases in non-endemic regions are generally benign and no deaths have been reported.