There were 32 cases of mpox in 2023, with MOH confirming on Thursday that all situations in Singapore have been the gentler genus II pressure. As of July 27th, 2018, there were ten instances of mpox, also known as monkeypox.
Singapore’s Health Ministry added on Thursday the immediate , public health threat to the country is small and that cautionary measures are in place.
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Mr. Ong outlined some important factors that Singapore is taking into account when handling mpox upon arrival.  ,
” There are several genotypes, one big stress that we’ve been encountering that’s called genus II. Clade II has a very small case fatality rate, about 0.2 per cent”, he added, which , means there are two incidents out of every 1, 000 people who are infected.
” It is not very, very high compared to other endemic diseases that we’ve been dealing with” . ,
Mr Ong, but, acknowledged that the genus I strain is the one that is spreading in Africa, with mortality price around 3.5 per cent to 4 per cent, while the genus Ib version is lower at 0.7 per share.
” Of course, these are figures recorded from Africa… Africa has numerous medical problems, and coming to Singapore, with our medical system and our ability to treat the situations, we hope we may bring it down significantly”, he said.
According to Mr. Ong, there are “disproportionate numbers of children under the age of 15” who are sick and contract the disease, so this is something we need to be on the lookout for. Children in Africa are not vaccinated against dengue, which acts against mpox.
On genus II’s small distribution, he said it was largely among “people who are engaged in high-risk physical activities”.  ,
While Clade I has “gone beyond that” as it has spread to kids, indicating close-contact distribution, there is” no evidence to show that it is spreading like Covid, where it can spread far and wide through airborne allergens”.
” You might consider it to be a little like chicken disease,” she said. It spreads person to person, especially those with near relationships who reside in the same family. So that transmissibility ( is ) likely lower, significantly lower, maybe than COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases”, Mr Ong said.