Monkeypox found in teenagers in Germany

In Germany, monkeypox was first detected in adolescents. Patients 15 and 17 years old. In total, there are now almost three thousand cases of infection in the country.

A rare infection is now taking over the United States. Following New York and San Francisco, a state of emergency was introduced in California, where an outbreak was recently recorded.

On the dangerous consequences of this type of smallpox “Izvestia” today told in Rospotrebnadzor. Experts noted that it can lead to encephalitis, sepsis and pneumonia, and bacterial complications can also join.

On July 23, the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Ghebreyesus, declared the outbreak of monkeypox a global public health emergency.

The head of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, said that the risks of monkeypox spreading in Russia are extremely small, since the only case of this rare infectious disease recorded in the country has not spread.