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Vietnam’s first monkeypox patient discharged from hospital

The first patient with monkeypox in Vietnam was discharged from hospital on October 14 after three weeks of treatment, according to the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
Vietnam’s first monkeypox patient discharged from hospital ảnh 1Vietnam's first patient with monkeypox discharged from hospital (Photo: Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases)
HCM City (VNA) - The first patient with monkeypox in Vietnam was discharged fromhospital on October 14 after three weeks of treatment, according to the Ho ChiMinh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases.

After treatment, the female patient’s fever has gone. Theblisters on her face, hands, and feet have dried up, flaked off, andcicatrised, while those inside her throat have been healed. With her pain gone,the patient now eats well, gains weight, and is optimistic.

The 35-year-old patient, residing in Ho Chi Minh City, fellill on September 18 while traveling in Dubai with symptoms of fever, fatigue,chills, muscle aches, headache and a cough, as well as red, itchy bumps on herarms, body, and face. She returned to Vietnam on September 22.

On September 23, she was admitted to the city’s Tu DuHospital and then transferred to the municipal Hospital of Dermato Venereology,where she was quarantined. Two days later, she tested positive for monkeypoxand was transferred to the municipal Hospital for Tropical Diseases for furtherquarantine, treatment and genetic sequencing./.
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