Singapore Ministry of Health A statement released last night (June 21, 2022) said a patient had been detected. “smallpox monkey” 1 case, which is the first in the countrySingapore and the first in Southeast Asia with detected patients “smallpox monkey” Traveling from outside Africa
The patientmonkey pox This person is a 42-year-old UK man, a flight attendant. of one airline He entered the country for the first time from June 15-17 and flew back in again on Sunday, June 19, before smallpox was detected on Monday, June 20. past
current monkey pox patient The patient was admitted to Singapore’s National Center for Disease Control (NCID), most recently, still in stable condition. The officials investigated the disease. And 13 close contacts have been detected, all of them will be quarantined for 21 days following further measures.
Previously in 2019 Singaporeever detected a patientmonkey pox One of the cases, a 38-year-old Nigerian man, had 22 close contacts at that time, all of whom had been in quarantine for 21 days. No symptoms of any disease
However, the infectionmonkey poxIn Singapore, it came after the World Health Organization (WHO) said it had lifted its definition of monkey pox data. It is a disease that is endemic. or can only be found in some countries to make the response to the epidemic more unified which in the past Monkey pox is a disease that is most common in West and Central African countries. But at present, monkey pox cases have been found in many countries on every continent. leading to such action.
The World Health Organization WHO said in the progress of the epidemic situation. Sent to the media on June 17 that the definition of differences between countries has been removed. that had previously been identified as endemic with non-endemic diseases And the situation in different countries will be reported together to reflect the unified response. which is considered necessary
As of today (June 22), South Korea has reported a case of suspected cases ofmonkey pox The first two were foreign nationals who arrived on June 20 and the other were South Koreans. The couple, who returned from Germany on June 21, are currently being held in quarantine awaiting confirmation of the results.
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