In an audio published on social networks, the Director General of Health of this portfolio, Melissa Ramírez, explained that the confirmed cases are characterized by being men between 21 and 73 years old.
Likewise, he continued, 18.6 percent of them report traveling to other countries and beginning in Costa Rica with signs and symptoms characterized by headache, myalgia and fever, later showing a rash or skin rash.
Ramírez stressed that the Ministry of Health follows the relevant clinical development, direct contacts, traceability and isolation of each case confirmed by mpox, as the World Health Organization has agreed to call the so-called monkeypox.
The director-general of health urged the population to contact the health services in the event of injuries found on the body or if symptoms appear and not to have direct contact with anyone.
After noting that this disease is transmitted through close, sustained, skin-to-skin physical contact, Ramírez specified that the main route of transmission at the moment is physical contact, which occurs during sexual intercourse.
Among other transmission routes, he mentioned respiratory secretions in personal conversations and contact with contaminated materials from a sick person.
The virus can also be transmitted to the fetus or newborn through birth or early physical contact, he said.
It has been shown that the most common symptom associated with mpox are skin lesions resembling pimples or blisters, they can be painful or itchy, they appear anywhere on the body but more commonly in the genital, perianal, facial, hand and and foot regions. .
He also pointed out that fever, chills, swollen glands, fatigue, muscle, back and headache pains, and breathing problems such as a sore throat, stuffy nose or cough can occur.
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