China Customs General Administration: those who have been in contact with monkey acne

The General Administration of Customs of China issued an announcement on preventing monkey acne outbreaks from being introduced into China, requiring people from a monkey acne epidemic, and personnel who have been exposed to the case of monkey acne or those who have suspected symptoms to actively declare to the customs.

According to the website of the China Customs General Administration on Monday (July 25), in order to prevent the transmission of monkey acne epidemic and protect the health and safety of immigrants, according to the national borders of the People's Republic of ChinaThe implementation of the implementation rules and other laws and regulations issued an announcement.

Announcement stated that people from the country from a monkey acne epidemic, such as exposure to the cases of monkey acne, may have symptoms such as fever, headache, muscle soreness, back pain, lymph nodes, facial and physical rash, etc.Should be proactively declared to the customs, and the customs health quarantine personnel will take medical measures and conduct sampling testing in accordance with the prescribed procedures.

Announcement also requires that the carrier of transportation of transportation from the country and suspected infection or infection of the monkey acne epidemic, as well as the responsible persons of the container and the owner of the cargo, shall implement sanitary treatment in accordance with the prescribed procedures.

The announcement will take effect from the date of release. The validity period is 6 months. According to the progress of the epidemic, the Chinese customs will dynamically adjust the port prevention and control measures in real time.

The Director -General of the World Health Organization Tan Desai announced last Saturday (23) that the epidemic of the monkey acne was listed as a global public health incident.This is the highest -level alarm of WHO. At present, only crown disease and pediatric paralysis belong to this level.

Since the beginning of this year, 71 member states from all six regions from the WHO have notified more than 14,000 campaign cases and five deaths.