China News Agency, Berlin, May 20. According to German media reports, the Institute of Microbiology of the German Bundeswehr in Munich said on the 20th that Germany had the first case of monkeypox.

  The virus was reportedly detected on the 19th in a patient with characteristic skin changes.

The patient is a 26-year-old male from Brazil.

He traveled from Portugal via Spain to Germany, visited Düsseldorf and Frankfurt, and stopped in Munich, the Bavarian state capital, for about a week.

  The Bavarian health ministry said the patient is currently in isolation in a ward at the Schwabing Clinic in Munich and is doing well.

The Munich health department is now further identifying close contacts and informing them in detail about their possible symptoms, hygiene measures and routes of transmission.

  "It is only a matter of time before the diagnosis of monkeypox in Germany." German Federal Health Minister Lauterbach pointed out on the same day that through relevant reports from the United Kingdom and other countries, as well as timely information released by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the German disease control agency, Doctors and patients in Germany are on high alert for the virus.

  "According to existing knowledge, we believe that the virus is not so easy to spread and can be controlled." He also emphasized that to do this, rapid action is needed.

Experts are currently conducting detailed analysis and research on the virus.

  According to the Robert Koch Institute, monkeypox has an incubation period of 7 to 21 days.

Compared to smallpox, monkeypox symptoms are usually much milder, and most patients recover within a few weeks.

However, some patients may be severely ill.

  The initial symptoms of monkeypox include fever, head, muscle and back pain, swollen lymph nodes, and fatigue.

A rash may develop that spreads from the face to other parts of the body.

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