Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Cpickled monkey (monkeypox) is now circulating in several countries. The significant increase in cases was even listed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as one level below the pandemic.
According to the Minister of Health, Budi Gunadi Sadikin, in Indonesia there have actually been 11 cases suspect suspected monkeypox, because there are red spots on his body. But, he said, they had been tested and it turned out that they did not suffer from it but ordinary chickenpox.
“For surveillance friendsThis one is relatively easier than Covid, because monkeypox This will be contagious if you have symptoms,” said Budi when he was a speaker in the Economic Update, Monday (8/8/2022).
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“For transmission, an infected person must have symptoms with spots on his body and can only transmit it. So from the surveillance side, we identify who can be infectious it is much easier. Then, he continued, for surveillance, monkeypox testing can use PCR. So we can use PCR, now we have … thanks to Covid, we have more than 1100 PCR labs throughout Indonesia,” he said.
Whereas for reagent which is a bit different. According to BGS, Indonesia has received a donation from the WHO and has also purchased it.
“There are already 1500 reagents that we have distributed to all provinces so that later if there are symptoms of suspected monkeypox, we can immediately test in each province to see if this is really monkepox or not,” he said.
In addition to vaccines, the Ministry of Health is looking. Even though there are vaccines monkeypox this is still rare. But from the update he received, for people who had previously been vaccinated against smallpox, it is now valid for life.
“Like when I was a child, I was given the smallpox vaccine, unlike the covid vaccine, the smallpox vaccine is valid for life. This can still provide protection against monkeypox,” he concluded.
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