In no case should we be afraid of a new pandemic, from this virus in particular, I say it categorically pointed out to SKAI and Sia Kosioni about smallpox of monkeys the London School of Economics (LSE) Professor of Health Policy Elias Mosialos.
“Obviously there is a global concern, because we have spent a lot of the last 2.5 years with the coronavirus pandemic. In Britain “We have a very large number of cases compared to other countries, but that may be an exaggeration because we are talking about dozens of cases in a country of 67 million.” write down.
As Mr. Mosialos explained, the virus is transmitted by respiratory droplets or contact with fluids in the patients’s oral cavity or if we come in contact with patients’s skin rashes or if we touch their sheets or pillows.
“You have to be in prolonged close contact for many minutes to get stuck. The droplets that are emitted can not go more than one meter. We are talking about bigger droplets, not for small ones like the coronavirus“They can stay in a room for a very long time,” said the professor.
“Mortality is not too high, it is 3 to 6% with the West African strain – in confirmed cases. There is not enough medicine and treatment and the infrastructure of the West. “The vast majority will heal themselves,” he noted.
As Mr. Mosialos clarified, “we have the vaccine, it is 85% effective, but it must be given in the first 4 days after the onset of symptoms. If it is administered until the 14th, it can reduce the symptoms but not prevent the disease “.
He said there was a new vaccine from Bavarian Nordic, a Danish company approved by the European and American Medicines Agency, which would not be available until 2023. USA.
“The smallpox of monkeys It is not a gay disease which is sexually transmitted, is transmitted only due to close contacts between people, Mr. Mosialos also clarified.
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