Follow us on Telegram for the latest updates: https://t.me/mothershipsg Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said in a Facebook post on May 28 that Singapore should not be surprised if a case of monkeypox is detected here in the coming weeks. He mentioned that over 200 cases of the virus have been detected in over 20 countries and it has sparked a lot of interest in the recent World Health Assembly, which he attended. Monkeypox not the same as Covid Ong said that the potential for monkeypox to become a pandemic like Covid-19 is unlikely. This is attributed to the fact that the virus spreads through physical contact rather than airborne — like Covid-19 which transmits wider and faster. For example, if you are highly exposed to someone with rash lesions because of monkeypox, you might be potentially infected by the virus. However, he assured Singaporeans that Singapore has “necessary protocols and public health measures” to deal with monkeypox. This was due to an imported case of the virus in 2019. What’s Monkeypox? Monkeypox is an orthopoxvirus which has similar symptoms to smallpox albeit less deadly. Once confined to certain places in Africa, the virus spreads in several ways such as… Read full this story
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