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Health Advice for Travellers
Swiss Expert Committee for Travel Medicine

 

Health Advice for Travellers
Swiss Expert Committee for Travel Medicine

 

Health Advice for Travellers
Swiss Expert Committee for Travel Medicine

Most of the laboratory-confirmed cases (2933/3413; 86%) were reported from the WHO European Region. In Switzerland, there have been 81 confirmed cases since May 21 and up to June 29.

Clinical presentation: The cases so far have been mild, there have been no deaths yet. Hospitalised patients have mostly been admitted for local isolation orders. The clinical picture is characterised by lesions that are atypical of the clinical picture in endemic countries. Currently, there are mainly very few, non-grouped, painless pustular lesions on the genitals, perianally and orally. Whether transmission occurs through genital secretions or primarily only through close skin-to-skin contact is not yet clear. The draining lymph nodes are sometimes massively swollen, and fever usually occurs for a few days. The general condition is often only slightly reduced.
Transmission: The virus can be transmitted from person to person via the respiratory tract, through direct contact with body fluids of an infected person or with virus-contaminated objects. The incubation period is 5-21 days, usually about 7-17 days. Monkeypox is transmitted from infected animals through a bite or through direct contact with blood, body fluids or lesions of the infected animal. They can be transmitted to people who eat infected animals via abrasions in the mouth, source, NCDC.
Symptoms: Symptoms of monkeypox include fever, headache, muscle aches, swollen lymph nodes and chills. 1- 3 days after the onset of symptoms, a rash develops that may look like chickenpox or syphilis and spreads from the face to other parts of the body, including the genitals. The disease is usually mild. In immunocompromised individuals, the disease can be severe. The mortality rate is about 1% for the West African type and up to 10% for the Central African type.

Prevention: Good personal hygiene. Avoid close contact with sick people, including those with skin lesions or genital lesions, and animals at all costs. Avoid contact with contaminated materials used by sick people. During stays in West and Central Africa: Do not consume bushmeat.

If the clinical picture is suggestive, individuals should also be isolated, tested, and screened for monkeypox.

MANDATORY REPORTING: In Switzerland, every suspected case must be reported within 2 hours to the respective cantonal doctor and to the FOPH (tel. +41 58 463 87 06)! Specialist laboratories, such as the Reference Laboratory for Imported Viral Diseases (HUG) or the Spiez Laboratory or the ZBS1 at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI; consiliary laboratory for smallpox), offer molecular diagnostics for the identification of monkeypox infections (material: crust or vesicular fluid).

Geosentinel requests confirmed and suspected cases to be reported at: geosennel@geosentinel.org

ECDC: Epidemiological update: Monkeypox multi-country outbreak, 15.6.2022
ECDC: Monkeypox multi-country outbreak. Situation Updates
WHO: Monkeypox
WHO: Meeting of the IHR (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the multi-country monkeypox outbreak, 25.6.2022
WHO: Joint ECDC-WHO Regional Office for Europe Monkeypox Surveillance Bulletin, 17.6.2022 
CDC: Monkeypox. Global Map
Global Health (GH): Map Monkeypox
Johns Hopkins: Center for health security. Monkeypox

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