“The fact that a person has had chickenpox in the past does not have a significant effect on the severity of monkeypox,” RIA Novosti quotes the press service of Rospotrebnadzor. 

The department stressed that all necessary measures are being taken to prevent the possibility of importation and spread of the virus in Russia.

Earlier, Rospotrebnadzor said that no cases of monkeypox were detected in Russia.

An immunologist, a specialist in especially dangerous infections, Doctor of Medical Sciences Vladislav Zhemchugov, in an interview with the 360 ​​TV channel, commented on the situation with the incidence of monkeypox.