Infection "B virus" in contact with monkeys Infection confirmed in Kagoshima First in Japan on November 28 at 19:06
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It was found that employees of pharmaceutical development affiliates in Kagoshima City were infected with the “B virus” that was infected by contact with monkeys and caused inflammation in the brain. Because it is the first time that an infection has been confirmed in Japan, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases has almost no risk of spreading the infection.
B virus may infect humans by being bitten by infected monkeys and may cause encephalitis and disturbance of consciousness.
According to Kagoshima City, etc., the infection was caused by an employee of a pharmaceutical development affiliate in Kagoshima City who was assisting in experiments using monkeys.
The employee complained of headache and fever and was being examined at the hospital, but this month, when the National Institute of Infectious Diseases examined, the infection was confirmed, and the symptoms were severe.
Also, there is no record of employees bitten by monkeys, and so far the infection route is unknown.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and public health centers surveyed the facility, but no problems were found in management and countermeasures against infectious diseases.
Reports of B virus infection are extremely rare even in the world. According to the CDC = Disease Control Center in the United States, there have been 50 reports of infection since 1932, and 21 of them have died. It means that.
Even if it is bitten by a wild monkey, the possibility of infection is extremely low, and only one case has been reported so far. The National Institute of Infectious Diseases says that infection is the first in the country, "In this case there is almost no risk of infection spreading, but if you are bitten by a monkey, I want you to go to the hospital immediately" .
B virus is a virus that infects monkeys, and when infecting humans, symptoms such as blisters and fever appear after a incubation period of 2 weeks to over a month. There is also.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, infection to humans is almost limited to contact with monkeys, such as being bitten or scratched after the virus grows in the body of the monkey and is discharged into saliva, Only one case has ever been infected from person to person.
Due to the characteristics of these viruses, all infections have been reported to be researchers and breeding facility staff who often handle monkeys.
Antiviral drugs are said to be effective for treatment, and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has said, “There are already measures to prevent recurrence at the facility, and the risk of spreading the infection is extremely low. You do n’t have to worry. ”