4th monkeypox case has recovered - DOH

The Department of Health (DOH) said that the fourth case of monkeypox in the country has recovered and that no additional symptoms have been observed.
 
In a report on Tuesday, the DOH said the 25-year-old Filipino with no travel history to any country with confirmed monkeypox cases was tagged as recovered on the same day the patient was discharged from the hospital on September 15.
 
“Upon further verification, the case was tagged as recovered on the same day [the] case was discharged from the hospital on September 15. [This case] has met the required lesion criteria for de-isolation. No additional symptoms [were] observed,” the DOH said.
 
On August 19, the patient tested positive for monkeypox after undergoing a PCR test at the DOH-RITM. 
 
The Health department, however, did not disclose the location of the fourth case.
 
The DOH had said that all the 20 identified close contacts were asymptomatic.

A viral infection resembling smallpox and first detected in humans in 1970, monkeypox is less dangerous and contagious than smallpox, which was eradicated in 1980.
 
The first symptoms can include a fever, headaches, sharp muscle pains, fatigue, a rash, as well as swollen and painful lymph nodes, according to an Agence France-Presse report.
 
One to three days after the appearance of a fever, a rash can turn into painful, fluid-filled skin lesions. After a few days or weeks, the lesions or sores turn into scabs before falling off. 
 
Symptoms have varied between patients. However, they usually last between two and four weeks, and the virus is contagious until the rash has fully healed.  — VBL, GMA News