Mr Mosialos notes that the risk to the general population remains minimal and there is no need to panic or overreact.
Professor Elias Mosialos is reassuring in his Facebook post, after the announcement of EODY regarding the first case of smallpox reported by EODY in our country.
Mr Mosialos notes that the risk to the general population remains minimal and there is no need to panic or overreact.
He reminds that there are medicines and vaccines, including the smallpox vaccine that is effective for the smallpox of monkeys.
The post of Mr. Mosialos in detail
It seems that there is a case of smallpox in monkeys in our country as well.
But let me emphasize here 6 points that we should remember:
1. Since the beginning of the year we have 1400 possible cases of smallpox in Africa and 66 deaths. We now have about 1000 cases outside Africa.
2. All cases outside Africa are mild and we have not had any deaths so far.
3. Transmission of monkey pox is very difficult and only after very close contact with a sufferer or prolonged contact with objects used by the sufferers.
4. There are medicines and vaccines, including the smallpox vaccine that is effective for monkeypox.
5. We also know that older adults, who have had the smallpox vaccine in the past, are also quite protected against monkeypox.
6. The risk to the general population remains minimal and there is no need to panic or overreact.
