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Last week, the American health authorities reported the existence of a new symptom of monkeypox: a very painful inflammation which would appear at the level of the rectum.
Monkeypox never ceases to amaze researchers. Latest evidence? A brand new symptom detected in the United States, and reported by Jennifer McQuiston, Deputy Director of the Division of High Pathogenic Consequences of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC). This would prove to be particularly painful during defecation and sexual intercourse.
Inflammation of the lining of the rectum
Monkeypox is easily recognizable by its symptoms: the disease causes high fever, fatigue, muscle and back pain, but also and above all, impressive rashes on the face, palms of the hands and soles of the feet. .
Last Thursday, the CDC reported a new symptom, mostly seen in men.
“Some American patients have reported a particular symptom, called ‘proctitis’, which I think is a swollen prostate”said Jennifer McQuiston.
Rochelle Walensky, the director of the CDC, has also specified that this syndrome is similar to “a kind of inflammation of the lining of the rectum which can be very painful during defecation and possibly sexual intercourse“.
This new information will be passed on to clinicians.”so they can make the connection to monkeypox and this new form of rash“.
In France, as of June 9, 91 cases of monkeypox were confirmed: 85 of these cases having been the subject of a health investigation concerned men aged between 20 and 63 years.
Is monkeypox dangerous?
Most cases of monkeypox are mild (symptoms resolve on their own after 14 to 21 days), but the virus can become so in susceptible individuals – young children, pregnant women, and people who are immunocompromised or affected by disease. which weakens the immune system.
More rarely, the patient’s state of health worsens. He may then present the following signs: infection of the dermis, lungs (pneumonia), brain (encephalitis), cornea (loss of sight) or more rarely sepsis (excessive generalized inflammatory reaction following an infection severe).
“The disease is more severe in children and in immunocompromised people. It can be complicated by superinfection of the skin lesions or by respiratory, digestive or ophthalmological or neurological disorders. At this stage, the cases reported in Europe are mostly mild, and there are no reported deaths.“, reported Public Health France on May 20.