Health Expert at WHO: Monkeypox Monkeypox Won’t Become a Pandemic

Guidance has also been issued for doctors, nurses and healthcare staff detailing the minimum recommended personal protective equipment (PPE) for staff working with confirmed cases.

The UKHSA also said it had purchased more than 20,000 doses of the safe smallpox vaccine, which was offered to identify close contacts of people diagnosed with monkeypox to reduce the risk of symptomatic infection and severe disease.

Ruth Milton, Senior Medical Advisor and Director of Strategic Response for monkeypox at UKHSA, said: “This new monkeypox guide establishes important steps for health professionals and the public to manage this disease including how to safely isolate it at home and reduce the risk to others.”

“The risk of transmission is highest through direct contact with someone who has monkeypox. The risk for the UK population remains low.”

Although the new guidelines include similar precautions introduced for hospital and nursing home staff dealing with the coronavirus, Paul Hunter, an expert in microbiology and infectious disease control, told Xinhua: “Monkeypox is not a COVID-19 situation and never will be. COVID-19.”

Hunter said scientists were confused because at this time there didn’t seem to be a clear link between the many cases in the current wave of monkeypox infections.

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