Peru declares health alert over monkeypox

< br>Child with high temperature. File photoBUENOS AIRES, May 19.The Peruvian authorities have decided to declare a sanitary alert regime due to monkeypox from May 20, although no cases of infection have yet been detected in the country, El Comercio newspaper reported, citing Minister of Health Jorge López Peña. «We are declaring an alarm, it will come into effect from tomorrow So far, we have no cases, but we are taking this measure to be prepared for any surprises,» the minister quoted the media as saying.Rospotrebnadzor assessed the risk of importing monkeypox as low. Penya also said that the Ministry of Health is considering the possibility of purchasing vaccines against this disease. zoonotic (i.e. transmitted to humans from animals) a disease whose symptoms in humans are similar to those experienced in the past in patients with smallpox, but less severe.