Mpox, infectious disease specialist Cauda (Gemelli): “Monkeypox? We are not on the eve of Covid, transmission is different and there is a vaccine”

“I don’t think it will be necessary a mass vaccination but selective. We are at the eve of Covid? I would say no, the WHO’s reassurances allow us to say so. The transmission is different, and we also know the virus, there is a vaccine. And one of the reasons why the WHO declared a state of emergency is to draw on vaccines.” He says Roberto Caudadirector of the Infectious Diseases Unit of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic and Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Catholic University, interviewed by Ansa on the risks associated with the spread of monkeypox. “The WHO has decided to call the virus mpox. Transmission occurs through close, intimate contacteven of a sexual nature, even using the same towels and sheets. The disease presents itself, except in subjects such as children or pregnant women, in both symptomatic and non-symptomatic forms. The first with fever, malaise, presence of vesicles, skin rashes, like smallpox. The disease lasts from two to four weeks. It has an evolution, except in high-risk people, benign”.