The spokeswoman for the Nicaraguan regime, Rosario Murillo, reported that the Ministry of Health (Minsa) has installed epidemiological surveillance to promptly detect suspected cases by monkey pox.
Given the detection of infected people in other countries such as the United States or Canada, “as Minsa we ensure epidemiological surveillance to timely detect, if it occurs, any suspicious case according to symptoms and travel history,” Murillo said, during his meridian intervention by the official media.
The vice president of Nicaragua pointed out that with the displacement of human beings from one country to another “it would not be unusual for (monkeypox) to appear in the Americas, which I understand, there is already a case in the United States.”
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“We are in close coordination with the World Health Organization (WHO) to learn about the behavior of the cases reported in all these countries and their epidemiological impact on the world,” he said.
Rosario Murillo stressed that “we are alert, pending and taking all the precautions that must be taken” in the face of the new disease that is not yet endemic.
Monkeypox is a zoonotic viral disease, which means it can be transmitted from animals to humans, although it can also spread between people.
Its transmission takes place through contact with wounds, body fluids, droplets and contaminated material (such as bedding). Its incubation period is usually from six to thirteen days, although it can last up to 21 days.
The symptoms are similar to those of the eradicated smallpox, but somewhat milder. They include fever, headache, muscle and back pain, chills and exhaustion, and there is often swollen glands and a skin rash.
In recent weeks, cases have been detected in several countries where this virus had not previously been recorded.
Immunity against this disease is very low among the young population, given that those under 40 or 50 years of age have not received the smallpox vaccine and the virus has not been present in non-endemic countries.
