Wu Zunyou: Monkey acne epidemic will not cause large -scale popularity in China

Wu Zunyou, chief expert of epidemiology of the China Disease Prevention and Control Center, posted on a personal Weibo account on Monday (July 25) that the epidemic of monkey acne will not cause large -scale popularity in China.

According to the China News Agency, the Director -General of the WHO Tan Dezai announced last Saturday (23rd) that monkey acne epidemic was "international concern for public health incidents."Wu Zunyou wrote that this is the highest -level public health alert issued by WHO to the world.

Wu Zunyou said that the WHO puts the epidemic level of the monkey acne at the same level as the crown disease epidemic level, highlighting the subsequent development trend of the WHO's acne epidemic and the possible health and society.The influence has attached great importance to it; at the same time, WHO also hopes that this alert can promote the importance of member states for the epidemic of monkey acne, and start preparing to deal with the epidemic of the monkey acne that has occurred or will occur.

Talking about whether monkey acne will be introduced into China and causing popularity. Wu Zunyou said that on June 24, Taiwan reported the case of diagnosis of monkey acne. This is also the first in this epidemic.Example monkey acne case.At present, there are no reports of monkey acne cases in mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau.

But Wu Zunyou pointed out that from the perspective of the population and communication methods that monkey acne spread in European and American countries, the introduction of monkey acne to mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau is only a matter of time.

Wu Zunyou said that the earliest attacked by monkey acne epidemic in mainland China is likely to be a male behavior group, and then spread to other people.Due to the limitation of communication methods, the speed and the scope of the population of spreading are far from the popularity of crown disease.In other words, monkey acne epidemic will not cause large -scale popularity in China.The crowd is generally susceptible, that is, regardless of men, women, and children, they may be infected.

Talking about how to prevent monkey acne, Wu Zunyou pointed out that one must avoid contact with the infected animals, and the other must be as much as possible.According to the main way of spreading the epidemic of the monkey acne, avoiding intimate contact with people who may come from the epidemic area is an important prevention measure.

As for whether a repeated infection will occur, Wu Zunyou said that there is currently a case report that has been infected with the infection of monkey acne virus, and the infection occurs again.The immune protection effect after infection of monkey acne tideline can last, and it is still unclear.

He mentioned that those who have previously vaccinated the ceiling vaccine have a certain degree of cross protection for monkey acne virus.Research in the African Monkey Popular area showed that the prevention effect of ceiling vaccines for monkey acne was about 85%.