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United States President Joe Biden , speaks about the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity at the Izumi Garden Gallery in Tokyo on May 23, 2022. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP.
The US president, Joe Biden, assured this Monday that his father is He was well prepared to deal with the risks posed by monkeypox, including having vaccines, and he ruled out that the United States is going to apply quarantines.
Asked about the detection of several infections in US territory during a press conference in Tokyo, where he is. visiting, Biden subtracted importance to the subject and assured who does not believe that it is necessary to “make extra efforts” to deal with the problem.
“I don’t think it’s necessary to raise the level of concern” as was done with covid-19The president said in relation to Belgium’s decision to impose 21 days of quarantine on people who show symptoms of the disease. thatthe human smallpox vaccine is effective against the zoonotic disease that his country has sufficient supplies to deal with it, although he appealed to the population to “be careful”.
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“I think that we have enough (vaccines) to deal with the problem in all probability“, Biden said forcefully from the room of the Akasaka State Guest Palace, in Tokyo, in which he offered Today he held a press conference with the Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, on his first trip to Japan after taking office.
Monkeypox is a viral zoonotic disease, which This means it can be passed from animals to humans, although it can also spread from person to person.
Its transmission occurs through contact with wounds, body fluids, droplets and contaminated material (such as bedding). Its incubation period is usually from six to thirteen days, although it can last up to 21 days.
The symptoms are similar to those of the eradicated smallpox, but somewhat milder. They include fever, headache, muscle pain, back pain, chills, and exhaustion, and there is often swollen glands and a skin rash.
In the last few weeks cases have been discovered in several countries where this virus had not been detected before.
Immunity against this disease is very low among the young population, given that those under the age of 40 or 50 year olds have not received the smallpox vaccine and the virus has not been present in non-endemic countries.