BRIN: Monkeypox Is At Risk Due To Death Of Up To 10 Percent Of Patients

Officers monitored the temperature of the passenger's body that passed the body temperature scanner at the Ngurah Rai Airport International Arrival Terminal, Badung, Bali, Thursday (16/5/2019) (ANTARA PHOTO/Nyoman Hendra Wibowo/nym/ama)

JAKARTA - The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) said monkeypox (monkeypox) could cause up to 10 percent of the risk of death in patients.

Head of the Preclinical Medical Research Center and BRIN Clinic Harimat Hendarwan conveyed that the risk of death that will be faced by infected sufferers is 0.1-10 percent.

"Because from the point of view, the reference is 0.1-10 percent fatality rate (death rate)," he said, quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, October 18.

Harimat explained that groups who are prone to serious symptoms due to the disease are children, pregnant women, and people who have weak immune system.

The incubation period that will be passed by sufferers before experiencing symptoms of infection is 1-21 days with symptoms that will appear, namely rashes on the skin, fever, muscle aches, swallowing pain, and swelling in the lymph nodes.

Harimat said that there was no special treatment in treating this disease, the treatment method was carried out in the form of assistance to strengthen the body's resistance and relieve pain due to infection.

"In general, the treatment is usually for 'pain' only (nyeri) and also supporting (strengthening) endurance," he said.

The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) has confirmed the case of monkeypox in DKI Jakarta which was reported on October 14. The cause of the disease was an infection with the virus, a member of the genus Orthopoxvirus, and a family ofpoxvirides.