The main thing that characterizes monkeypox is prolonged close contact for infection.

This was told by a pediatrician, candidate of medical sciences, TV presenter Yevgeny Komarovsky on the Freedom TV channel.

“It seems to me that everyone is clinging to this monkeypox to distract themselves from the war. (…) Monkeypox is not a coronavirus when it’s enough for you to sit in one room or in a subway car and get infected,” said Komarovsky.

He also added that monkeypox is a disease “not fatal, to put it mildly.” According to statistics, the western version of the infection (smallpox has two variants: West Africa and Central), which is much easier, and this is what is now being recorded in Europe, gives a 1% mortality rate for people who are starving and do not have access to medical care.

“For the rural population of the Congo, this variant of smallpox gives 1% mortality. If we are talking about a person who does not starve and uses the help of doctors, the mortality rate will be very low,” the doctor said.

He also added that if the situation does start to worsen, there is a vaccine proven by 100 years of experience, or rather, five drugs against smallpox.

“Most likely, if monkeypox appears in our country, health workers will need to be vaccinated,” the pediatrician added.

For example, in Belgium, where they announced a quarantine for those who have symptoms of monkeypox. Just like with other infectious diseases.

Recall that at the end of April, Lyudmila Denisova, Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights, warned that Mariupol was threatened with an outbreak of a number of ailments due to medieval living conditions – cholera, dysentery, eschechichiosis.

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