For having had close contact with the 27-year-old who came to Medellín from Barcelona and it turned out infected with monkeypoxthere are already 32 people in an epidemiological fence.
Among these people are the human talent in health who attended the case upon arrival at the health center, users who came on the same flight that arrived in the city, friends and relatives of the patient, who had close contact during the first days of the virus.
“It is important to bear in mind that the epidemiological study that has been carried out is done in order to guarantee all containment measures and keep these people under surveillance and aware of the warning signs or symptoms. For now there is no criteria to take more tests on these people. They are all asymptomatic and it is a part of tranquility ”, explained the Undersecretary of Public Health, Milena Lopera Carvajal.
Initially, there were nine relatives of the young man who were admitted to the epidemiological fence on suspicion of contagion. Then the report rose to 22. “The 32 people in the epidemiological fence are not in isolation, but are constantly being monitored and visited to identify if they present any symptoms of the clinical picture of this disease,” they expressed from the Ministry of Health.
“We remind the population and the people who are inside the fence to take precautions, be at home and not be in places where there is capacity for people,” Lopera invited.
The young man, who is the first positive case of monkeypox recorded in Medellin, is recovering in El Poblado (community 14). His health status is stable, as are his relatives and close ones, who must be in an epidemiological fence for several days.
It is important to note, according to the Ministry of Health, that smallpox is transmitted from one person to another only through close contact with injuries, body fluids, respiratory droplets, and contaminated materials such as bedding of a patient in its infective stage: “From two to seven days before the onset of symptoms until the skin lesions heal.”
At the moment, according to the National Institute of Health (INS), three men between 20 and 40 years old are infected in the country. Although in the world there are already more than 3,200 cases, so far only one death has been reported.