Czech Republic: 2022 Monkeypox

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Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/czech-republic-detects-its-first-case-monkeypox-2704161



Czech Republic detects its first case of monkeypox
24 May 2022 10:15PM (Updated: 24 May 2022 10:15PM)

PRAGUE: The Czech Republic detected its first case of monkeypox on Tuesday (May 24) in a woman returning from a festival in Belgium, officials said on Tuesday.

The patient was being treated at Prague's Central Military Hospital, the head of the Czech Infectious Medicine Society (SIL), Pavel Dlouhy, said, confirming the case, which had earlier been reported by news website Seznam Zpravy.

The National Institute of Public Health (SZU) said a sample from one of three people tested had been positive, although final testing results would be confirmed next week.

The two other suspected patients' tests were also still being worked on, it said.

It said the first patient had attended a music festival in Antwerp at the start of May and began showing symptoms after her return...

 

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Source: https://outbreaknewstoday.com/czech-republic-reports-five-confirmed-cases-of-monkeypox-61810/


Czech Republic reports five confirmed cases of monkeypox
by News Desk
June 1, 2022

The National Reference Laboratory (NRL) for Influenza and Non-Influenza Respiratory Viral Diseases has already validated the first two samples by PCR, which have so far been considered preliminarily positive for smallpox. New examinations then revealed three more infected patients. Thus, we have a total of five confirmed cases of monkeypox in the Czech Republic. In all cases, the laboratory confirmed that it was monkeypox belonging to the West African clade virus (Monkeypoxvirus West African clade)...

 

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Source: https://theparadise.ng/5-cases-of-monkeypox-found-in-the-czech-republic/

5 cases of Monkeypox found in the Czech Republic
September 13, 2022

The initial two samples previously presumed to be smallpox were validated to be monkeypox by PCR at the National Reference Laboratory (NRL) for Non-Influenza and Influenza Respiratory Viral Diseases.

Three other patients were discovered to have the disease after new tests. As a result, there are now five genuine monkeypox cases in the Czech Republic. The laboratory verified that all of the infections were caused by the West African Monkeypox clade.

Three new infections were confirmed on an electron microscope and verified by PCR, but one other sample tested positive only on the electron microscope without the capacity for confirmation by PCR...