No other human case of MPOX of CLADO 1B “in Brittany was identified,” said the Regional Regional Health Agency for BFMTV this Wednesday, January 29.
On January 6, the new clado of clado 1B was first detected in France. The person, played thirty, had not traveled in Central Africa, but “however he had been in contact with two people returning from Central Africa,” according to the Ministry of Health.
According to Brittany’s Regional Health Agency, the patient is no longer sick and no longer has a risk of pollution.
“The patient is fine. She resumed her work. Isolation after the symptoms has been respected and no longer presents a risk of pollution,” said Ars Brittany’s communication department.
“Don’t worry”
The health authorities had been alerted on January 2 of a potential case of this new strain of the virus, previously called “monkey variole”.
It was not the clade 1, present for decades in Africa, but a variant, the 1B clade, much more recently identified in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (RDC).
First identified in the RDC in 1970, the disease has long been limited to a dozen African countries. But in 2022, it began to expand in the rest of the world, especially developed countries where the virus had never circulated.
Mpox is characterized by skin lesions, such as pustules, high fever and muscle pain.
The minister in charge of the health of Yannick Neuder, said on January 7, that “there were no concerns of having” about the presence of this virus in France, apart from a visit to the Chu.
Source: BFM TV
