“Repeated mistakes in response to COVID-19… WHO must encourage strict quarantine”
(Yeongjongdo = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Do-hoon = Overseas entrants are waiting for quarantine at the arrival hall of Terminal 1 of Incheon International Airport on the morning of the 27th.
In front of the passengers, a notice regarding monkey pox has been erected. 2022.5.27 [공동취재] [email protected]
(Rome = Yonhap News) Correspondent Jeon Seong-hoon = In response to the increasing number of confirmed cases of monkey pox in non-endemic regions such as Europe and North America, prominent infectious disease experts have urged the World Health Organization (WHO) and countries to respond quickly to quarantine.
The purpose is not to miss the ‘golden time’ of quarantine in the early stages of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) and not to follow the train that caused numerous casualties.
Professor Isabella Ekele, a renowned infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Geneva Hospital in Switzerland, told Archyde.com on the 28th (local time) that it is necessary to encourage strict quarantine measures in each country, saying that the WHO should not respond complacely this time.
He also said that the virus is not very dangerous and that there are vaccines and treatments available, which might lead to indolence of public health authorities.
“If this virus becomes endemic (in more countries), we will have to face another terrible disease and make many difficult decisions,” he warned.
Professor Angela Rasmussen, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, also wrote on Twitter that while monkeypox is a different virus from COVID-19, “we are repeating the same mistakes in responding decisively with the means available right now.”
Their unanimous point is that once the virus begins to spread, the lessons from the past two years must be remembered: that there is no way to prevent a global pandemic (pandemic).
“It is always disappointing that people in developed countries are so quick to become alert to a new disease when it occurs in developed countries,” said Piero Oliaro, a monkey pox expert and professor of epidemiology of poverty at Oxford University in the UK. pointed out
Monkey smallpox, known as endemic to Central and West Africa for decades, has spread to Europe, North America, the Middle East and Australia since the first case was reported in the UK on the 7th, raising concerns regarding another health crisis.
As of the previous day, the WHO counted 300 confirmed and suspected cases from 20 countries in non-endemic areas.
However, in the case of non-endemic areas, it is emphasized that there is no need to have excessive fear, saying that existing prevention measures such as early recognition and isolation of confirmed cases and close contacts and vaccination can be sufficiently suppressed.
Mike Ryan, head of the WHO’s emergency response team, recently said, “We always have it in mind, but we have not yet considered setting up an emergency committee related to monkeypox.”
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jaeyun Lee = The US health authorities announced on the 26th (local time) that so far, nine cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in seven states in the United States.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said that there have been more than 200 progressive confirmed cases in 20 countries classified as non-endemic for monkey pox so far, and the number of suspected cases is more than 100, and requested each country to raise the level of surveillance.
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