Dr. Mohamed Awad Tag El Din, the Presidential Advisor for Health and Prevention Affairs, said on Tuesday, that there is no need for any concerns over any upcoming pandemics.
He added that a supreme committee concerned with pandemics and prevention, asserting that Egypt has a wide experience in resisting those kind of diseases, including the Monkeypox. He also refuted the reports that described Monkeypox as upcoming pandemic.
Tag El Din highlighted in “Al Yawm” program, aired on DMC, that the plans of prevention against any disease are always set, and updated according to any disease breakouts.
Those measures were previously applied against bird flu, and Coronavirus, and they include procedures for prevention and quarantine.
In the same context, the Monkeypox was originally named as smallpox, and it was ended by vaccines and treatments, however, it still exists in some of African countries, before it emerged in several non-epidemic countries.
Furthermore, Tag El Din revealed that the symptoms of this disease are mild, unlike Coronavirus which is still an active pandemic, therefore, all protective measures against should be applied strictly.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the monkeypox virus was detected in more than 20 countries, with over 200 confirmed cases.
However, Sylvia Briand, WHO Director for Global Infectious Hazard Preparedness, said on Friday that there is no need for mass vaccination currently against the lately emerged Monkeypox.
She asserted that countries should take immediate actions to control the spread of the virus, and share the data about their available vaccines.
“We think that if we put in place the right measures now we probably can contain this easily,” Briand told the agency’s annual assembly.
In the same context, the senior WHO official revealed that the Monkeypox is a mild viral infection in several countries in West Africa.
However, it spreads to several non-epidemic countries in Europe, US, and Canada.
“For us, we think that the key priority currently is trying to contain this transmission in non-endemic countries,” Briand explained.
She also asserted that countries should apply isolation and early detection for the cases who were in contact with infected persons, in addition, she urged countries to share their information about the available smallpox vaccines and treatments.
“We don’t know exactly the number of doses available in the world and so that’s why we encourage countries to come to WHO and tell us what are their stockpiles.”
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