These new cases, known as Monkey’s flower disease, are extraordinary and are often limited to family nuclei or sincere contacts.
Ireland is the last European country to determine the state of a new and infectious flower disease of the monkey destroying Central Africa. A Irish patient who will return recently From the Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC)The central base of a epidemic that has infected thousands of people since the detection of the new strain in 2023.
There are two subtypes examined from the MPOK virus. Clado II, Endemik in West Africa caused the world epidemic with health authorities of Europe and North America in 2022. It continues to spread, but at controlled levels.
Meanwhile, CLIO I, Endemik in Central AfricaIt causes more serious illnesses for the local population and with more risk of death. A subset From the most dangerous tension known as CLIO IB It appeared in RDCIn September 2023 And since then, it has expanded by the region, especially in Burundi and Uganda.
How to spread MPOK?
For the symptoms caused by Clada IB, much is still not known, but apparently It spreads more easily And creates more diseases Among the children.
MPOK spreads Narrow skin theme with skin – It can surely cause sexual intercourse and visible skin rashes, headaches, fever, tremor, inflammation of lymph nodes and other respiratory symptoms.
World Public Health Emergency Status
World Health Organization (WHO) declared MPOK’s African epidemic World Public Health Emergency Status In August 2024. At that time, the European Health officials warned that although the public’s risk is still low, the lawsuits would probably occur in Europe.
New coercion has been detected since then In six European countriesIt is also in the United States, Canada, China, India, Oman, Pakistan and Thailand. These are places where new sympathy in Europe is determined:
Ireland
Irish Health Authorities Risk has been announced For the population Still low After the detection of CLIO IB MPOK in a person who recently returned from RDC. The patient was hospitalized in Dublin.
United Kingdom
Most nine cases It is related to the trips reported in the UK. The latest infection reported in February occurred in a person traveling to Uganda.
Occurred in the first cases October 2024When a person gets sick after returning from African countries where the tension circulates and then infected with three members of MPOK’s house. In September, the United Kingdom acquired the government More than 150,000 vaccines Against MPOK, Clado has recently opened vaccination points to prepare for the possible risks of IB and recently.
France
In January, a person from the region Brittany After close contact with two people traveling to Central Africa, he contained MPOK. French health officials, sometimes similar to countries with similar outbreaks may occur, he said.
Germany
The German country (waiting for the next early elections) reported in January the last Seven MPOK case. European Disease Prevention and Control Center (ECDC) reported first case Occurred in October And the five remaining in December.
According to ECDC, in December cases, he was a person traveling to an influenced area and then involved in family members, including children who were not recently abroad. There was no spread outside the house.
Belgium
According to ECDC, Belgium, two cases in December, the first in the near future and the second in a person traveling in a child. The agency said he did not define No other high -risk contact.
Swedish
Sweden in August 2024 The first country outside AfricaWhile informing a case New MPOK sush.
AdvertOne patient sought medical care in Stockholm after being infected in a part of Africa, where Clade IBX was spread, as reported by Swedish health authorities. The only situation in the country is still.
Where is it vaccinated in Spain?
The Ministry of Health recalls the availability of the flower vaccine model on the website. If the symptoms described are suspectedAnd it emits a series of accessible vaccine proposals In this connection.
