Monkeypox patient. File photoROME, Jun 1There are currently 20 cases of monkeypox in the Apennines, Italian Deputy Health Minister Pierpaolo Sileri said on Wednesday. in Italy there are 20 cases, of which 19 are the stories of people who have traveled where the chains of contact have been identified and it is possible — this has not yet been confirmed — only one case is secondary infection (direct contact with a sick person). during the incubation period — ed.) But we must be careful: given the incubation, in about a couple of weeks we will have new cases,» the deputy head of the Ministry of Health said on the air of the Rai Radio1 radio station. Sileri said that he perfectly understands the concern of many people who survived the COVID epidemic -19. «However, these are completely different things: the mechanisms of transmission of the virus are different, the types of the virus themselves, what happens after infection, and, above all, the therapy is different,» he stressed. Previously, Matteo, director of the infectious diseases clinic of the San Martino hospital in Genoa Bassetti told RIA Novosti that, in his opinion, humanity is not threatened by a new pandemic, since the monkeypox virus has less virulence than the coronavirus, which makes it unlikely to mutate.
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