It is confirmed by the Ministry of Health of Greece, after the analysis of the second sample, that the 29-year-old Briton, who had traveled to Kefalonia and was admitted to "Attikon" as a suspected case, is not a carrier of monkey pox but skin rashes that appeared due to chickenpox in which he was found positive.
"In a laboratory examination of a sample from the suspected case of the man who is being treated at Attikon Hospital, no monkeypox virus was detected, while the sample was positive in two repeated tests for the chickenpox virus," the ministry said in a statement.
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In a laboratory examination of a sample from the suspicious case of the man who is being treated at ATTIKON Hospital, no monkeypox virus was detected, while the sample was positive in two repeated tests for the chickenpox virus (varicella - chickenpox).
The examinations were performed at the Reference Laboratory (Laboratory of Microbiology, AUTh Medical School) for Smallpox and at the Laboratory of Microbiology of ATTIKON Hospital.
Chickenpox virus, although it contains the synthetic -pox, is different from the viruses that cause smallpox or smallpox in monkeys. There is a relevance regarding the symptoms and the appearance of skin lesions caused by Chickenpox and Smallpox, Smallpox of monkeys.
Chickenpox has been eradicated from the human population since 1980 and Chickenpox is a common disease that causes about 4 million infections in children. There is a vaccine available for Chickenpox and it causes a milder illness than Smallpox.
It is recalled that the Briton was transported on Saturday night, in a special capsule, from Kefalonia to Athens.
As ERT reported earlier, the patient is in a good mood and has a fever, while he presented a series of mild symptoms among them and some rashes that made him a suspicious case and for safety reasons he entered a negative pressure chamber. His partner is also hospitalized in "Attikon", which, however, is asymptomatic.
The incident was undertaken by the professor of Pathology of EKPA Sotiris Tsiodras, together with the associate professor of Pathology - Infections, Anastasia Antoniadou and the professor of Pathology - Rheumatology Dimitris Boubas.
Source: RES-EAP