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US establishes monkeypox response team

New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene health workers work in tents where people are registered to receive the monkeypox vaccine. | Font: AFP

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The United States government has set up a national monkeypox response team and appointed emergency and epidemiological experts to deal with the disease.

This morning, the White House announced in a statement President Joe Biden’s nomination of experts to lead this panel.

The coordinator will be Robert Fenton, currently in charge of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Federal Emergency Management Agencyin English) in the west of the country and one of the “most experienced emergency management leaders in the country”.

The Deputy Team Leader will be Dr. Demetre Dasklakis, a public health expert and current director of HIV prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Dasklakis is also an expert in the treatment of diseases that afflict the LGTBIA+ community and has led infectious disease control for the New York City Department of Health several times.

“We look forward to working with Bob Fenton and Demeter Dasklakis to bring the outbreak to an end. monkeypox in USAThis is stated in a statement by the Minister of Health of the country, Xavier Becerra, who emphasized the experience of both countries in solving this problem.

The government has launched a strategy to combat the virus and has provided 1.1 million doses of the vaccine to states and cities to combat its spread.

Three states in an emergency

The creation of this group comes a day after it was reported that the states of California and Illinois had declared a state of emergency due to the rise in cases of monkeypox, thus joining New York, which already did the same last Friday .

It so happens that the three states that have declared a state of emergency are those in which the three largest US cities are located: New York in the state of the same name, Los Angeles in California and Chicago in Illinois.

The emergency declaration authorizes government agencies to allocate funds and resources to help communities fight the disease.

USA about 6,000 cases detected monkeypoxaccording to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

(As reported by EFE)

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“Espacio Vital”: Dr. Juan Carlos Celis, infectious disease tropologist and head of the department of infectious pathology at the Loreto Regional Hospital, argued that information about monkeypox is not transparent to the public and that there is no clear data on how this happens. he transmits the disease, and this gives way to misinformation and fake news. He added that monkeypox is spreading at such a speed that it cannot be controlled, traces of the epidemic are lost. He also explained that there are two types of smallpox vaccines, but there is no clear information about when they will be available and how they will be distributed to different countries. Therefore, it is impossible to say that vaccines are going to be purchased, he specified.

Source: RPP

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