The Provincial Council of Nursing (Corin) in São Paulo has begun training nurses in the Basic Health Network to properly collect samples for the diagnosis of monkeypox.
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The professionals undergoing training are from the capital’s primary health care units under the guidance of the specialists of the Emílio Ribas Hospital to consolidate the necessary information and speed up the identification of suspected cases of the disease.
Among the main symptoms of monkeypox are fever, headache, body aches, chills, and swelling in the neck, armpits, and groin, as well as fatigue. One to three days after these symptoms begin, blisters often appear all over the body.
Transmission of the disease occurs when shared objects are used with infected people. In some rare cases, transmission is through the air or through saliva droplets when speaking, but the most common method is skin contact.
Last month, the Department of Health began talks with the Pan American Health Organization to purchase 50,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine. There was an expectation that these doses would be delivered by the end of this month, but there are delays. And now the forecast, according to the Ministry of Health, is the beginning of September.
Data from the latest bulletin from the Ministry of Health shows that Brazil is already the third country in the world in terms of the number of cases, most of them in São Paulo. With 2,528 confirmed, the state concentrates nearly 65% of cases in the country. The countries that lead the most in case registration are those that make up the United Kingdom and Germany.
“It is a disease against which we have a vaccine, and the problem is that the world has not yet succeeded in increasing vaccine production enough to protect themselves,” said biologist and scientific researcher Attila Imarino. “There is a vaccine, there is more than one vaccine for this, and there are other vaccines in development, but we have this interval of a few months until we have enough distribution of it so that we can really contain the circulation of the disease.”
“What we need is population awareness and more active case finding, to accurately identify who has the virus and isolate these people before the virus spreads. It is not a contagious disease like Covid, which should stop the world, but it is a disease that can cause a lot of problems,” Imarino said. If we don’t give him the attention he deserves.
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