They announced the news at a media briefing in Warsaw.
‘A moderate clinical course’
Dr. Grażyna Cholewińska, a regional consultant for infectious diseases, told reporters that the patient was a man from Poland's central Mazowieckie province who had earlier visited Spain’s Gran Canaria island.
“He has completed the 21-day self-isolation period and has been discharged home,” Cholewińska said.
She added that the patient had experienced “a moderate clinical course” and would "remain under anti-epidemic supervision."
Krzysztof Strzałkowski, a senior regional councillor, said that hospitals in the province were "well prepared to deal with the monkeypox virus.”
He added that it was vital “to inform the public about the disease, about how it is transmitted and what precautions to take against it.”
Monkeypox 'must be treated seriously’
Cholewińska said that “monkeypox is unlikely to cause a new pandemic, but must be treated seriously.”
She added that "the most effective way to combat the disease is to avoid infection,” Polish state news agency PAP reported.
She urged members of the public “to avoid contact with an infected person or animal and not to touch dead animals, especially rodents.”
“Patients with a confirmed infection must be isolated,” Cholewińska stressed.
Those suspected of being infected 'will be sent to hospital and isolated': spokesman
Meanwhile, the spokesman for Poland’s health ministry, Wojciech Andrusiewicz, said on Monday: “Anybody suspected of being infected with monkeypox will be sent to hospital and isolated.”
Poland’s first case of monkeypox was confirmed last Friday.
It is a rare infectious viral disease of both animals and humans.
The first symptoms of monkeypox include fever, muscle aches, headache, back pain, fatigue, swollen lymph nodes and a rash that often appears first on the face.
Cases have recently been identified in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Britain, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, among other countries, the PAP news agency reported.
(pm/gs)
Source: PAP, businessinsider.com.pl