Ministry Of Health: Oropharyngeal Sample Suspected Monkeypox In Central Java Negative

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JAKARTA - The Director General of Disease Prevention and Control of the Ministry of Health, Maxi Rein Rondonuwu, said the results of laboratory tests on oropharyngeal samples on suspected monkeypox or Monkeypox in Central Java showed negative results.

"The first sample from the oropharynx was indeed negative, but we asked to take it again from the skin lesion fluid", said Maxi Rein Rondonuwu as quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, August 4.

The oropharynx is the middle part of the pharynx that is connected to the oral cavity which functions to allow air, food, and drink to pass through.

According to Maxi, the oropharyngeal sample is one of the procedures for diagnosing suspected monkeypox or Monkeypox. The process continues to check the fluid of skin lesions so that the results of the analysis are more accurate.

Minister of Health, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, in an interview session at the Vice President's Palace, said that there was one suspected monkeypox in Pati Regency, Central Java, who was identified on July 19, 2022.

"On July 19, there were symptoms of fever, on July 21 and then he was taken to the hospital, on July 23 the spots (liquid lesions) appeared", he said.

According to the Minister of Health, Budi, a genome sequencing method is needed to differentiate the smallpox virus from Monkeypox. This method generally takes about three to five days from sampling.

Based on the Ministry of Health's report, to date, a total of nine Monkeypox suspects have been detected in Indonesia. Based on the results of the genome sequencing research, all of them were declared negative because they had smallpox.