{"id":10132,"date":"2022-08-20T16:31:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T16:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=10132"},"modified":"2022-08-20T16:31:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T16:31:39","slug":"indonesia-records-first-case-of-monkeypox-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/indonesia-records-first-case-of-monkeypox-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia records first case of monkeypox virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indonesia records first case of monkeypox virus. Indonesia has recorded its first case of monkeypox in a 27-year-old man who returned from travelling overseas, the country&#8217;s health ministry said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization designated the outbreak of the virus an emergency last month \u2014 something it reserves for diseases of highest concern.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesian health ministry spokesperson Mohammad Syahril said the patient had a &#8220;high awareness and knowledge of the disease&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So when he got the symptoms, he immediately checked it (with) the doctor. The result came (back) positive within a day,&#8221; Syahril told reporters, adding that the man was now in isolation in capital Jakarta.<\/p>\n<p>Symptoms of monkeypox \u2014 which is endemic in parts of Central and Western Africa \u2014 include lesions, fever, muscle ache and chills. It has only been fatal in rare cases.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/who-recommends-use-of-two-antibody-drugs-against-ebola.html\">WHO recommends use of two antibody drugs against Ebola<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The ministry spokesperson declined to identify the country from where the man had travelled to Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in Southeast Asia, Singapore has confirmed more than a dozen cases and the Philippines and Thailand have also recorded their first cases. The United States has recorded thousands of cases.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to previous outbreaks in Africa, the virus is predominantly spread from intimate contact \u2014 though it is not a sexually transmitted disease.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/\">US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> says other routes are also possible, including sharing bedding, clothing, and prolonged face-to-face contact.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization on Wednesday called for people infected with monkeypox to avoid exposing animals to the virus following a first reported case of human-to-dog transmission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indonesia records first case of monkeypox virus. Indonesia has recorded its first case of monkeypox in a 27-year-old man who returned from travelling overseas, the country&#8217;s health ministry said on Saturday. The World Health Organization designated the outbreak of the virus an emergency last month \u2014 something it reserves for diseases of highest concern. Indonesian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[5993,6427,623,996],"class_list":["post-10132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-latest-news","tag-indonesia","tag-monkeypox","tag-who","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}