Authorities are the third country after Turkey and Thailand, which once ranked first to receive tourists – including Ukraine – had to make a statement about “monkeypox” to reassure locals and tourism. It’s about Egypt.
“The Ministry of Health and Population is closely monitoring the epidemiological situation with the virus, which has spread to several European countries,” the Pyramids said. However, the local Ministry of Health stressed that no cases of smallpox were recorded in Egypt. We will remind, you that earlier similar statements were made by the power of Turkey and Thailand.
Hossam Abdel Gaffar, a spokesman for Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population, pointed out that the monkeypox virus is very similar to the smallpox virus but less deadly and less transmitted. Monkeypox causes symptoms that include fever and rashes, he added, and is not easy to spread because it requires direct contact between humans and animals infected with the virus for long periods, making it unlikely to turn into a global pandemic such as Covid-19.
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However, more than 100 cases of the disease have already been reported outside Africa, where the disease is endemic. The World Health Organization held an emergency meeting to discuss the outbreak of monkeypox after more than a hundred cases of the disease were suspected in Europe. “This virus is endemic to some groups of animals in some countries and sometimes causes an outbreak of the disease among locals and travelers. But recent outbreaks of the virus, which have been observed in 11 countries, are considered unusual because they have been detected in non-endemic countries, “said the WHO.
It is not yet clear what measures will be taken in Egypt. However, in the country of the Pyramids, there are real fears that a new disease will spread the pandemic to international officials: in the past two coronavirus years, Egypt has lost a lot of money because of the tourism sector of the economy, which is practically not working. And nobody wants to repeat this experiment there.
It will be recalled that a special monitoring committee has already been set up in Thailand, and risk groups have been identified – tourists from African countries, as well as sex tourists.