The Butantan Institute, in São Paulo, created a technical committee to study the production of vaccines against monkeypox. According to the agency, the decision is due to “the imminence of a possible outbreak of the disease”.
Until Sunday (3), the country had 76 confirmed cases of the disease, according to the Ministry of Health. Currently, Brazil does not have smallpox vaccines.
The ordinance creating the committee at the Butantan Institute says that “there is a growing incidence of reported cases and outbreaks, which is raising concerns about the future spread of the disease”.
The committee, formed by nine specialists, has the task of advising the entity for a “possible production of the vaccine”. They will conduct studies and proposals on the feasibility of production.
The low production capacity of the vaccine to stop the transmission of the virus is an aspect that worries specialists
The WHO (World Health Organization) on Friday called for urgent action in Europe to contain the spread of monkeypox. According to the entity, 5,322 of the disease were registered in more than 50 countries – most of them in European territory.
The entity, however, has decided not to classify monkeypox as a global health emergency.
One of the points still under assessment by the WHO is how the virus spread so quickly in different countries – outside Africa, where the disease is endemic, this is the biggest outbreak ever seen.
In Brazil, the first case in Brazil was registered on June 8, in São Paulo, in a 41-year-old man who traveled to Spain and Portugal. In less than a month, the number of cases in the country rose to 76.
As there are no vaccines in the country, the Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga, said that the ministry was in contact with PAHO (Pan American Health Organization) to evaluate purchases of doses, but still under evaluation.
The transmission of smallpox from monkeys happens through close contact. Infection can be via the respiratory tract, but prolonged close face-to-face contact is required.
Another form of infection is through the blister-like sores that monkey pox causes on the skin. Fever and body aches are other symptoms of the disease.
Decreasing transmission primarily involves isolation of suspected and confirmed cases.
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