Revealed dangerous secrets about the disease .. Jordanian expert: The use of "monkeypox" as a biological weapon is not excluded!

A member of the National Committee for Pharmacovigilance and Corona Vaccines in Jordan, Clinical and Pharmacological Treatment Adviser, Dr. Dirar Balawi, confirmed that the atypical spread of the monkeypox virus recently makes us not rule out the possibility of its use as a biological weapon.

He added in a statement that the American Center for Disease Control classifies diseases into three groups, including biological warfare groups, and the most important group is (A), which poses a great danger to society, and it can be transmitted from one person to another, and causes deaths such as anthrax and smallpox. (Who includes monkeypox in his family).

Balawi considered that the atypical spread of the virus during the recent period, makes us not rule out that it is part of a biological war run by one of the countries, in the midst of an unstable political situation, such as the Russian-Ukrainian war or the American-Chinese crisis, if we know that monkeypox is an endemic disease that exists in the West Central Africa and can be found in Central America.

There are also questions, according to Balawi, about the reason for the spread of the virus at the present time, which is something we did not notice previously. We have seen its spread in Europe, America, Australia and Canada, and therefore the possibility of using it as a biological weapon is present, and it must be placed on the agenda of countries and health institutions to ensure the extent The validity of this possibility.

With regard to correcting the errors circulating about monkeypox, Balawi indicated, according to the "Saraya" news website, that the virus is endemic in Central and West Africa, and the death rate in it is from 1-10%, which is less than the death rate in human smallpox, which is 30%.

He pointed out that it was called monkeypox, but the monkey was innocent of it, as this disease was discovered in a laboratory for monkeys in 1958, experiments were being conducted on it, and after investigation they discovered that monkeys are not incubators of the disease, and it seems that they caught the infection from rodents, pointing to the incubators of the virus, which are rodents. Like rats and squirrels.

He pointed out that some Arab news websites made a mistake in translating the name of an animal (Prairie dog), which the American media talked about as a reason for the outbreak of monkeypox in 2003 in America, where they translated it to (wild dogs) and began to warn against dogs on It is an incubator for the virus, but it is true that this animal is called “the prairie dog” or “meadow dog” and it has nothing to do with dogs. Rather, it is a type of squirrel, and its name came because it barks like a dog.

One of the mistakes that some people circulate about monkeypox, as explained by Balawi, is that it is transmitted through sex, but the most accurate and correct thing is that it is not a sexual disease. Close skin-to-skin contact, or droplets from coughing, sneezing, and talking during close intercourse.

He pointed out that monkeypox is not transmitted by an infected person who does not show symptoms, unlike the Corona virus, and in order for the infected person to spread the virus, he must show symptoms such as swollen lymph nodes and pimples on the face and hands, stressing that the possibility of transmitting a sick person with monkeypox does not show symptoms. For a healthy person she is very slim.

As for the success of using available drugs for human pox or antiviral drugs for cases infected with monkeypox, Balawi said that human pox and monkeypox are similar in terms of genomic sequence at a degree of 96.3%, and therefore these drugs are expected to benefit in the treatment of monkeypox at a rate of no less than 85 -90%.

Balawi urged the necessity of providing a strategic stockpile, even if it is a simple one, of the human pox vaccine, and that this be on the list of strategies of countries and crisis centers, given the possibility of cases that require giving the vaccine, such as health care providers who deal with people infected with the virus, or people who take care of people with smallpox. Monkeys at home.

He explained that people who have been exposed to a person infected with monkeypox can take the human smallpox vaccine within a period ranging between 3-7 days from exposure, in order to protect them from severe symptoms of the virus.

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