The last concern of Italians is monkeypox. To reassure citizens about the monkeypox cases are the words of Giovanni Di Perri, director of the infectious diseases department of the Amedeo di Savoia hospital in Turin: “The situation should fade and return to normal. Poor transmissibility should not generate a spread of the virus, there is only one possible discriminant, the poorly vaccinated population. Smallpox was declared extinct in 1976 and vaccinations were suspended in 1981, which is why the number of non-immunized people has increased over the years. In any case, I feel like ruling out a scenario like the one generated by the Coronavirus “.
“We don’t live the same disorientation condition faced during the first months of Covid – said the professor to Affari Italiani. There is a vaccine against smallpox but above all there is also a drug officially formalized by the WHO, it is called Tecovirimat. Let’s look at the Coronavirus. In 18 years there have been three leaps of species, Sars, Mers and Covid-19. There are many factors that intervene, such as the strong overpopulation, the large movements we make and without a doubt some food practices once experienced as rural and marginal and now having a strong impact. One of the animals to keep an eye on is definitely the bat “.
Will Covid be the last pandemic? Professor Di Perri is certain in answering: “Absolutely not. The risk of a new pandemic reappearing is upon us, indeed we could say that it is in incubation. When I was still a student we considered some tropical diseases relegated only to certain areas of the world, now the situation is changing: we find cases of Zika or Dengue also in the West. There are certainly some precautions to be taken, such as banning some food practices related to the bat or preserving some natural habitats, for example by stopping the phenomenon of deforestation. These measures are fundamental, another pandemic is around the corner “.
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