The Department of Health (DOH) announced two new monkeypox cases this Friday in the Philippines.
In the press briefing, DOH officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said that the two new cases are aged 34 and 29.
They both went to a country with a confirmed case of monkeypox.
Vergeire did not provide other details about the patients.
Because of this, the confirmed cases of monkeypox in the Philippines have risen to three.
The first case of monkeypox was recorded in the Philippines in July. Health Undersecretary Dr. Beverly Ho said the first case was a 31-year-old patient.
A 31-year-old patient is the country’s first monkeypox case, announced by the DOH last month.
According to Vergeire, the patient has recovered and was released from isolation on August 6.
Meanwhile, Vergeire said that the positive PCR result of the new case, a 34-year-old patient, came out on August 18. Meanwhile, the result of the PCR test of the 29-year-old patient was August 19.
The 34-year-old patient is in home isolation while contact tracing continues. The 29-year-old patient is in a healthcare facility.
According to the official, DOH is verifying 17 close contacts of the patients.
Philippines records 2 new cases of monkeypox
Symptoms of monkeypox include fever, headache, muscle pain, rashes, swelling, and painful lymph nodes.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) is now asking for the public’s help to create a new name for the virus.
“Human monkeypox was given its name before current best practices in naming diseases,” WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib explained how the virus was named.
The virus was first identified in monkeys in research in Denmark as early as 1958, but now it is also found in other animals, especially mice.
The World Health Organization (WHO) previously declared the disease a global health emergency. There are more than 16,000 cases of it in 72 countries.
It also appears in the study that 99 percent of those affected by the virus are men who have sex with other men.
So the WHO advises gay and bisexual men to limit their sexual partners while the virus is still under control.
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