Resende recommends that pregnant, breastfeeding and postpartum women use monkeypox masks | Southern Rio and Costa Verde

It is also recommended that Use of condoms in all types of intercourse (oral, vaginal, anal).

The guidelines follow a technical note from the Ministry of Health issued on August 1.

Until the publication of this report, Resende He had three suspected monkeypox cases, two of which had already been ruled out and one awaiting results.

In a preventive way, the Ministry of Health is already conducting training for health professionals, who are the first line in facing the first care of the infected.

All recommendations issued by the Ministry of Health are sent to health professionals who work in hospitals and health reference units in the municipality, so that the possible cases that appear in the city are correctly identified.

“The municipality is now able to carry out screening and disease detection here, following the care directed so far by the country’s health authorities. Resende He remains vigilant and monitors the progression of the disease. In the current picture, monkeypox is getting a lot of attention and we are constantly meeting to discuss updates. Having said that, more attention needs to be paid to the groups of pregnant and lactating women after childbirth, who constitute a more vulnerable audience for transmission,” said Municipal Health Minister Jaime Neto.

What is monkeypox?

Monkeypox is a disease caused by the monkeypox virus, which belongs to the same family (poxvirus) and genus (orthopoxvirus) as human smallpox. However, smallpox was eradicated from the world in 1980, and it was much more deadly.

Transmission occurs through close contact with injuries, body fluids, respiratory droplets, and contaminated materials such as bedding, regardless of the sexual orientation of those infected.

The disease usually causes the following initial symptoms:

• Fever
• Headache
• muscle pain
• Back ache
• Swollen lymph nodes.
• goosebumps
• exhaustion

Within one to three days (sometimes longer) after the fever appears, the patient develops a rash that usually begins on the face and spreads to other parts of the body.

Recently, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), the mortality rate of monkeypox was around 3% to 6%; For the larger human smallpox that has now been eradicated, this percentage has reached 30%.

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