Smallpox of monkeysthe alarm a Belcolle. Yesterday morning, Friday 3 June, the results of the test carried out on the two Bengalis who had been placed in solitary confinement on Thursday after accessing the emergency room. The report of the analyzes carried out at the Spallanzani institute in Rome, a reference point for the study of infectious diseases, gave a negative result. Suspicions from Thursday evening were swept off the report.
In the very early afternoon of yesterday, therefore, the ASL was able to say that there was no confirmed case of smallpox from monkeys at the Belcolle hospital. “The diagnostic tests sent yesterday by the emergency room of the Viterbo health facility to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Lazzaro Spallanzani, were in fact reported today (yesterday for the reader), with the notification of a negative outcome to monkeypox”.
The alarm was triggered in the early afternoon of Thursday when two Bengalis – who had recently returned from their country of origin – were visited in the emergency room and reported illness: headache, exhaustion and, besides, they both had strange rashes. For this, the protocol for a possible contagion from monkeypox. In fact, the symptoms suggested that the two had returned from their country with the virus. For this they were placed in solitary confinement pending the completion of the tests that were sent to Rome. Yesterday morning, as mentioned, the result of the test wiped out the suspicions.
Meanwhile, the researchers of the national institute for infectious diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani of Rome, in yesterday’s issue of Eurosurveillance, the scientific journal of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (Ecdc), published the article describing the first cases observed in Italy of monkeypox (Monkeypox) all in males. The article represents, together with two other rapid, the first detailed description of the disease, in the context of the outbreak that is affecting several European and non-European countries. The sequence, already registered on May 26 on the GeneBank website as the first sequence in Italy, demonstrates that the virus of the Italian cases belongs to the West Africa clade, similar to the virus identified by other European researchers in the current disease outbreak.
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