On July 8, people wear masks on the subway in Paris, France. Xinhua News Agency (photographed by Aurelian Morisal)
China News Agency, Paris, July 27 (Xinhua) According to data released by the official French local time on the 27th, France has confirmed a total of 1,837 cases of monkeypox. . French Health Minister Braun announced the launch of free screening for monkeypox on the same day to curb the further spread of monkeypox.
France’s official data shows that a total of 781 cases of monkeypox have been diagnosed in the Paris region, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases is still the first among all major regions in France; the Occitanie region in southwestern France has a cumulative number of confirmed cases 151 cases of monkeypox; 150 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southern France.
According to the report of the French Ministry of Health on the same day, 40 patients with monkeypox infection are currently hospitalized in France, of which 34 were hospitalized due to complications caused by monkeypox; no deaths have been reported so far. A total of 12 adult women and two children are known to be infected with monkeypox; the median age of adult cases is 36, the report said.
French Health Minister Braun announced on the 27th that monkeypox will be screened for free, and the diagnosis will be completed through clinical examinations and biological tests. If you have obvious monkeypox symptoms, you should not hesitate to see a doctor, he said. Because the lesions are usually obvious and easy to see; when the clinical manifestations are not clear enough, relevant tests should be carried out, and the test results are only used to confirm whether they are infected with the virus.
The French Ministry of Health reports that most patients with monkeypox infection have rashes, fever, and swollen lymph nodes. French health regulators recommend nucleic acid amplification testing, which tests mucous membranes, skin and oral samples in sequence.
French officials are stepping up vaccination campaigns to curb the spread of monkeypox. According to the French Ministry of Health, most monkeypox infected people cannot identify who and how they were infected, making it difficult to trace contacts of monkeypox infected people. Some French epidemiologists recommend isolating monkeypox-infected patients for at least three weeks as a preventive measure, along with vaccination, medication, screening tests, and other methods to try to break the chain of transmission.
(Source: China News Service)