{"id":9629,"date":"2022-07-29T14:30:59","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T14:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=9629"},"modified":"2022-07-29T14:30:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T14:30:59","slug":"philippines-reports-first-monkeypox-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/philippines-reports-first-monkeypox-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines reports first monkeypox case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philippines reports first monkeypox case. The Philippines has reported its first case of the monkeypox virus, detected in a citizen who returned from abroad earlier this month, a health ministry official said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old had recovered but was isolating at home, while 10 people identified as close contacts including three from the patient s household had been ordered to quarantine, said Department of Health Undersecretary Beverly Ho.<\/p>\n<p>The person had previously travelled to countries with documented monkeypox cases, said Ho, without elaborating.<\/p>\n<p>Around 70 countries where monkeypox is not endemic have reported outbreaks of the viral disease as confirmed cases crossed 20,300 and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/\">World Health Organization<\/a> declared the outbreak a global health emergency.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippine case was confirmed positive on Thursday and the close contacts had not shown any symptoms, Ho said.<\/p>\n<p>Transmission can occur through contact with skin lesions caused by the virus, as well as bodily fluids, large respiratory droplets and contaminated bedding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our (public health surveillance) systems are in place. But we all need to work together. We need also the public to be vigilant,&#8221; Ho told a briefing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on what we know about monkeypox&#8230;there is a very clear need to be more careful about who we interact with, particularly sexual, intimate contact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The health ministry requires people exposed to monkeypox cases to quarantine for 14 to 21 days.<\/p>\n<p>The president s press secretary said while monkeypox was not generally fatal, the rapid spread of the virus was of concern.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(President Ferdinand Marcos ) primary concern is to get the information out so that people would be aware,&#8221; said Trixie Cruz-Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippines reports first monkeypox case. The Philippines has reported its first case of the monkeypox virus, detected in a citizen who returned from abroad earlier this month, a health ministry official said on Friday. The 31-year-old had recovered but was isolating at home, while 10 people identified as close contacts including three from the patient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6331,6330,623,996],"class_list":["post-9629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-monkeypox-cases","tag-philippines","tag-who","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9629","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=9629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}