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The nation has 330 affirmed cases, for the most part among men who have sex. At the heart of the concerns of affiliations and specialists: educate without stigmatizing.
At the conclusion of May, Alexandre, 37, and his companion taken note the appearance of little pimples, one within the back, for the other on the hands.
The two Ile-de-France inhabitants don't however know that they have caught monkeypox, a malady that had never been watched on French soil, in spite of the fact that it has been endemic since the 1970s in a dozen African nations.
It is an mail sent by the organizers of a cheerful celebration in Belgium, where they had gone by prior within the month, that pushes them to call the 15th: a few cases of this malady which is transmitted mainly through delayed contacts have been identified among the members within the event.
They are referred to the infectious and tropical diseases department of the Bichat Hospital in Paris, which is one of the four reference health institutions for epidemic and biological risk in Ile-de-France (out of the sixteen in the country).
There, a sample followed by a PCR confirms the diagnosis. They are immediately forced into isolation for three weeks, until their crusts fall off and are no longer contagious. A total of 330 people have tested positive for monkeypox virus in the country since the first case was detected on 20 May, according to a situation update by Public Health France (SPF) published on 23 June.
Ile-de-France is the main region affected by the epidemic, accounting for 68% of cases on the national territory, followed by Occitania (22 cases) and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (21 cases).
Clinical signs different from endemic regions
In spite of the fact that the side effects of Alexandre and his companion have not been exceptionally genuine, numerous tainted individuals have difficult injuries found within the genital and regions some of the time requiring the utilize of morphine. "Of the cases explored, 77% had a genito-anal hasty, 73% a hasty on another portion of the body, 71% a fever and 69% lymphadenopathy," that's to say a swelling of the lymph hubs, reports SPF.
At Bichat Clinic, infectiologist Xavier Lescure depicts proctitis, urethritis, but moreover verbal injuries and laryngitis. Clinical signs that contrast from those known until at that point in endemic ranges in Africa.
"These quirks are watched since of the mode of transmission particular to this plague and the community that carries this transmission," clarifies the specialist – until at that point basically men who have sex with men (MSM). "Nowadays, the most chance figure is multi-partner sexual organization," includes Lescure. Among the 330 affirmed cases is as it were one lady, "whose accomplice (not tried) detailed that he had had a hasty three weeks prior," says SPF.