BEIJING: A Beijing-based veterinarian has been confirmed as China’s first human infection case monkey b virus (wife) has died, amid growing concerns, official media reported.
A 53-year-old male veterinarian working for an organization researching non-human primates showed early signs of nausea and vomiting a month after biting two dead monkeys in early March. Global Times It was reported on Saturday, citing the English platform of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
The report said that the vet had sought treatment at several hospitals and eventually died on May 27.
Her close contacts are safe from it, for now, the couple added.
It said there had been no previously fatal or clinically apparent BV infection in China, thus the vet case is the first human infection case with BV identified in China.
Researchers collected the vet’s cerebrospinal fluid in April and identified him as positive for BV, yet samples from his close contacts suggested a negative result for the virus.
The virus, initially isolated in 1932, is an alphaherpesvirus enzootic in the genus Macaques. monkey. It can be transmitted through direct contact and exchange of bodily secretions and has a mortality rate of 70 percent to 80 percent.
The magazine suggested that BV in monkeys could pose a potential threat to occupational workers.
It is necessary to eliminate BV and strengthen surveillance in laboratory macaques and occupational workers during the development of specific pathogen-free rhesus colonies, the report said.
A 53-year-old male veterinarian working for an organization researching non-human primates showed early signs of nausea and vomiting a month after biting two dead monkeys in early March. Global Times It was reported on Saturday, citing the English platform of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
The report said that the vet had sought treatment at several hospitals and eventually died on May 27.
Her close contacts are safe from it, for now, the couple added.
It said there had been no previously fatal or clinically apparent BV infection in China, thus the vet case is the first human infection case with BV identified in China.
Researchers collected the vet’s cerebrospinal fluid in April and identified him as positive for BV, yet samples from his close contacts suggested a negative result for the virus.
The virus, initially isolated in 1932, is an alphaherpesvirus enzootic in the genus Macaques. monkey. It can be transmitted through direct contact and exchange of bodily secretions and has a mortality rate of 70 percent to 80 percent.
The magazine suggested that BV in monkeys could pose a potential threat to occupational workers.
It is necessary to eliminate BV and strengthen surveillance in laboratory macaques and occupational workers during the development of specific pathogen-free rhesus colonies, the report said.
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