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Five people were hospitalized in St. Petersburg on suspicion of monkeypox

Five people have been hospitalized and placed under medical supervision in connection with a possible case of monkeypox.

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Five people have been hospitalized and placed under medical supervision in connection with a possible case of monkeypox. This was reported by the interregional department of Rospotrebnadzor in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region in Max.

“In the course of an epidemiological investigation, contact persons are being identified. 5 people were hospitalized and under medical supervision. An order was issued for disinfection, the report said.

The department added that specialists immediately began a sanitary and epidemiological investigation and organized a full range of anti-epidemic measures.

Test systems developed and registered by Rospotrebnadzor are used to diagnose the virus in a short time. The investigation is ongoing, the situation is under the control of the department.

On the eve, October 15, in the Moscow region preventively hospitalized five people in contact with allegedly infected monkeypox. As reported in the regional Ministry of health, they had no symptoms of the disease, the condition was assessed as satisfactory. Patients were tested and medical supervision was established.

Source: РБК ↗

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