Monkeypox is a viral disease that is typically self-limiting, with patients recovering within 14 to 21 days.
Those who are infected usually experience fever, headache, muscle ache, backache, swollen lymph nodes, chills, lethargy and rash.
Each monkeypox case typically generates three to four close contacts who require quarantine. This is unlike COVID-19, which may generate up to 20 quarantine orders, said the Health Minister.
Of the eight monkeypox cases announced in Singapore since June, four are imported and the other four are local. None of the cases so far are linked.
On Monday, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said that MOH does not recommend the mass vaccination of Singapore’s population against monkeypox, reiterating the ministry’s stance on the viral disease.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.
A surge in monkeypox infections has been reported globally since early May outside the West and Central African countries where the disease has long been endemic.
A public health emergency of international concern is the top alert available to the WHO to tackle a global disease outbreak.
It is defined as “an extraordinary event which is determined to constitute a public health risk to other states through the international spread of disease and to potentially require a coordinated international response”.
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