The Egyptian "Health" reveals the latest developments in the follow-up to monkeypox

A spokesman for the Egyptian Ministry of Health, Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, confirmed that no cases of monkeypox have been detected so far, stressing that the ministry is following the epidemiological situation in the world very carefully.

Abdel Ghaffar said that "monkeypox is a rare viral disease that is transmitted from animals to humans," adding that "the disease is transmitted more often by rodents, by "biting" or dealing with the animal closely, or by eating the meat of an infected animal without cooking it well."

The health spokesman indicated, during a telephone interview with the satellite "dmc", that "the transmission of smallpox from human to human is not easy, as this occurs through close and direct interaction for a long time, and close contact and communication between bodies."

He pointed out that "it is noticeable in the current cases of infection that none of them have a history of travel to the countries where the virus is endemic in West and Central Africa, and that it has spread to a certain group of people who have multiple sexual relations of the same type."

Abdel Ghaffar stressed that the monkeypox virus mutation is "very weak," stressing that "regular smallpox vaccinations have proven to be 85% effective with monkeypox.

The Egyptian health spokesman indicated that the precautionary measures against infection with the monkeypox virus are the same that were followed in the Corona virus, including not mixing with infected cases.

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