Epidemiologist of the City Institute for Public Health, Dr. Ivana Begović Lazarević, says that in most cases of monkeypox, the incubation period is 6 to 13 days, and sometimes 21 days.
It starts with fever, fever, malaise, back pain, and one to five days after the onset of symptoms, characteristic solid changes, pimples, so-called macules and papules, which then become festering blisters. The changes are similar to those in patients. of the great goddesses “, explains Dr. Begović Lazarević.
In addition to sexual contact, monkeypox is also transmitted by respiratory droplets, and contact with body fluids and the content of changes in the skin must be prolonged.
In practice, they are transmitted using the same clothes, bedding, clothes. Caution is necessary, changing many partners is a risk, the epidemiologist points out.
Immunologist and professor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Belgrade, Milos Markovic, says that those who once received the vaccine against smallpox and smallpox are quite protected.
“There are second and third generation vaccines that can be used, they are not widely available, but if necessary – we will be able to react,” said Prof. Dr. Markovic.
The Institute for Public Health “Trampoline” announced that the first imported case of monkeypox was registered in Serbia. The case was diagnostically recognized and treated therapeutically, according to the “Trampoline” website.
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