Virologist Altstein speaks out against declaring monkeypox outbreak a pandemic

According to Alstein, which he expressed in an interview with Gazeta.Ru, there are no grounds for this.

“As a scientist, I believe that monkeypox is absolutely incomparable with the same coronavirus.

Cases of the disease were identified a few months ago, and the number of patients is less than 3.5 thousand. If hundreds of thousands were infected, this, of course, would be alarming, ”the specialist said.

According to Altstein, health systems have all the necessary tools to defeat the outbreak.

He also recalled that monkeypox is less contagious than the coronavirus.

In order to eliminate the outbreak of the virus, it is enough to quarantine the sick for 2-3 weeks.

In addition, there is already a vaccine for monkeypox that can prevent the spread of the disease.

Previously, a microbiologist, scientific director of the State Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums named after V.I.

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Mechnikov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vitaly Zverev told URA.RU about the course of the disease in monkeys infected with smallpox.