Within 10 – 15 days, her cases smallpox of monkeys worldwide, they have reached 140, “these can very easily become 5,000 – 10,000”, stressed the professor of microbiology at “Attikon” Spyros Pournaras, speaking on SKAI TV and the show “Today”.
For tourist from Kefalonia, whose symptoms signaled a health alarm, he explained that he finally has chickenpox and is already better.
He explained that the clinical picture of chickenpox and her smallpox of monkeys are similar, and in fact the vaccines for the two diseases are similar in different versions.
Mr. Pournaras appeared reassuring as smallpox of monkeys It does not have a tendency to spread widely, it is a mild disease and there are two vaccines on the market and one at an advanced stage of research, which can be used both before and shortly after exposure to the virus.
It is transmitted permanently through the respiratory tract and by close contact, bed linen for example and one has to stay long with the sick person in order to get stuck.
He also pointed out that for the first time there is a hypothesis that it is transmitted through sexual intercourse, something that did not exist until now in the literature.
For the possibility of returning the mask because of the monkeys’ smallpox, he said it was an extreme measure and that there should be no premature disturbance.
“But let’s wait a while for it to balance. Let us not be in a hurry. “Neither to be afraid, nor to be complacent”, the professor stressed.
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