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The Ministry of Health excludes the suspected case of monkeypox in São Luis |  Maranhão

The Ministry of Health excludes the suspected case of monkeypox in São Luis | Maranhão

The case was assessed and diagnosed by the Strategic Information Center on Health Surveillance (CIevs) following the Ministry of Health guidelines.

suspicious case Get rid of it nowof a five-year-old child who developed symptoms similar to those of the disease. The child received medical care from the municipality of São Luis and remained in home isolation until the investigations ended.

Suspected cases in Brazil

According to the file, the patients “are still isolated and recovering, and they are being monitored by health monitoring teams, and cases are being investigated, and they will be collected for laboratory analysis.”

The initial symptoms of monkeypox are usually fever, headache, muscle aches, back pain, swollen glands (lymph nodes), chills, and fatigue.

After the incubation period [tempo entre a infecção e o início dos sintomas]the individual begins with a nonspecific appearance, with the symptoms we observe in other viruses: fever, malaise, fatigue, loss of appetite, prostration,” explains Gillian Trindade, virologist and researcher at the Department of Microbiology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG).

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

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