Rospotrebnadzor, St. He said two cases of monkeypox were detected in St. Petersburg among tourists from China. This has been reported telegram channel departments.
Rospotrebnadzor said the disease was diagnosed in two men who returned from a tourist trip to Hong Kong.
Before that, virologist Anatoly Altshtein, professor at the Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology statedMonkeypox does not pose a threat to Russia.
Altstein reminded that monkeypox was detected in 80 thousand people during last year’s epidemic, and this spring, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the situation was no longer an emergency and that the contagiousness of the virus had decreased sharply.
The scientist added that the virus lived in rodents in Africa and from there it was transmitted to monkeys. At the same time, according to him, humans cannot be infected only from primates. According to Altstein, during last year’s epidemic, the virus was brought to Europe by a homosexually oriented person, and 98 percent of the patients were homosexual men.
First case before transfers Monkeypox virus has been detected from person to person in Vietnam.