Beijing - Saba:
Chinese health authorities announced on Friday that they had detected a new mutated substrain of monkeypox as the viral infection spread to more countries, after the World Health Organization declared a health emergency last year.
The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention indicated in a statement that it had detected an outbreak of the substrain (IB) that began with the infection of a foreigner, who has a history of travel and residence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The center detected four other cases of people who were infected after close contact with the foreigner, and the symptoms that appear on the patients are mild and include a rash and blisters.
Two days ago, the French Ministry of Health announced the registration of the first infection in the country in Brittany with a new strain of monkeypox type "1B", explaining that the infected person had not traveled to Africa, where different strains of smallpox are actively spreading, but he had been in contact with two people who had returned from Africa.
Last August, the World Health Organization declared a global public health emergency for the second time in two years due to monkeypox after it broke out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and spread to neighboring countries.
Monkeypox is a rare viral disease that can be dangerous for people with weak immune systems.
The infection is accompanied by fever, poisoning, swollen lymph nodes, and a rash that later spreads, first in the form of spots that turn into blisters, then after healing they become crusts and then scars remain. In mild cases, the disease usually disappears on its own and lasts from 14 to 21 days.
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