Monkeypox is mild, but there may be complications. – in Israel told, what is known about the new threatening disease

There will be no pandemic, but sanitary rules must be observed. This is how Israeli doctors comment on the spread of monkeypox. According to them,, 30-summer resident of the country, caught the virus in Africa, is under the supervision of experts, the disease is mild.

This has never happened before and here it is again.. At the Tel Aviv clinic “Ihilov”, where only recently the covid department was closed, reconvene a meeting of epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists in order to, to solve, what to do with the new monkey scourge, nothing to do with bats.

This time the threat came from central Africa. monkeypox, monkey pox - an unpleasant viral disease, transmitted by primates. An Israeli patient endures it in a mild form, under close medical supervision. A similar case was recorded in the country in 2018 year. However, today the situation looks different., since about spreading monkey pox, usually did not go beyond the African continent, spoke on several continents at once.

“To date, when we get information first from England, later from America, later from Spain, from Portugal. The total number of cases reaches 50. It's causing a lot of commotion. Today, even in Israel we have a person with a suspicion of monkey pox. He is hospitalized in the hospital “Ihilov”, - says infectious disease specialist Galina Goltsman.

Already in 11 countries of the world confirmed 80 cases of monkeypox. The World Health Organization has called an emergency meeting about the unusual geography of the distribution of monkey pox, a virus close to defeated was black pox.

What is unusual, so this is it, that two continents are involved simultaneously. And I think, that in the end we will put the puzzle together and understand the connection between them. But right now it's not clear. And what is unusual, so then, that most of these people have not traveled to Africa, says virologist Daniel Bausch.

First case of monkeypox confirmed in Switzerland. Today in Western Europe, and in North America, and in the Middle East are trying to understand the reason for such a rapid migration of the disease.

And we see, what the virus changed, gave his degree of infection. Really, it was a disease, almost never passed from person to person, Goltsman explains..

According to infectious disease, the spread of the virus involves fairly close contact with an infected. The virus is most actively transmitted, when the skin of the sick person is covered with a small rash, which passes with time.

There's no fear here. We do not expect another pandemic. This is a limited number of infected. We suppose, that in Europe there are now many so-called “silent infections”, but we hope, that we can contain them through patient isolation and contact tracing, what we learned well during corona, – said infectious disease specialist Clemens Ventder.

In most cases, monkey pox proceeds easily.. Symptoms, usually, pass within two to three weeks, however, complications often develop.

In general, the disease is mild and goes away on its own., like any viral disease, but in 10% cases may develop complications, associated with pneumonia, with inflammation of the nervous system and even the central nervous system, – adds Holtzman.

Monkeypox has a relatively high mortality rate, 3-6%, however, low contagiousness has been observed so far, infectiousness. Tel Aviv residents, who survived four lockdowns in two years due to the coronavirus pandemic, do not intend to lock themselves at home again.

I don't think, that the situation with covid will repeat. This happens once every 100 years, and we got through it. people lost time, money, plans collapsed. No one else will agree to stay at home because of what- then there is a virus, if he doesn't kill you, says Tel Aviv resident Hila Moshali.

Marvelous, but those, who were vaccinated in childhood against smallpox, on 85% protected from monkeypox. Nevertheless, experts are in no hurry to urge the population to immediately get vaccinated., despite, that the world giants of the pharmaceutical market have already started working on a new vaccine. Scientists claim: there will be no pandemic, what, of course, does not negate sanitary precautions, the rules of which managed to be remembered during the years of rampant coronavirus.