“THE smallpox of monkeys It is not a pandemic, it is an endemic disease in Africa and especially in the Congo, we have known it for a long time “, the president of EINAP stressed to SKAI and Giorgos Avtias Matina Pagoni.
“In a world other than Africa where there are a lot of incidents, are about 100 cases, that is, they are manageable, “he noted.
“Monkey pox is a viral infection. It is very likely that it will come to our country at the moment it has come to many European countries, we can deal with it, we now know that it is a virus, we know the symptoms, how it starts and is transmitted through the respiratory tract and through contacts from skin lesions “.
The symptoms, he explained the doctor, is fever, myalgias, weakness, headache, swollen lymph nodes and skin manifestations that start from the head and end in the body, ie the characteristic blisters.
“All the diseases that can be fatal, but the cases that were treated did not need special medication, without a special treatment they went home,” said Ms. Pagoni.
He clarified that there is a vaccine for the disease, “but we are far away, we will see its evolution, even if we have incidents in Greece “.
“You do not need to panic, but pay attention to hygiene, hand washing” underlined Matina Pagoni…
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