Expert says monkeypox will not be more than an outbreak | Video

Madrid, May 28 (EFE) (Camera: Raúl García) - The virologist Maripaz Sánchez-Seco, who leads the team that has achieved the complete sequence of the bacteria causing monkeypox, says that this virus will remain an outbreak and will not become a pandemic because although more cases are being recorded, "surely it will be well controlled.

In an interview with EFE TV, Sanchez-Seco has ruled out that the spread of this disease becomes alarming because, although "we are still rising", control measures are being put in place, isolation of positive cases and monitoring of contacts, so it will come "a time when this will calm down". EFE.

FOOTAGE OF THE NATIONAL CENTER OF MICROBIOLOGY IN THE TOWN OF MAJADAHONDA, MADRID (SPAIN).

SOUNDBITES IN SPANISH OF VIROLOGIST MARIPAZ SÁNCHEZ-SECO, HEAD OF THE ARBOVIRUS AND IMPORTED VIRAL DISEASES LABORATORY, FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH EFE.

TRANSLATION:

1- I believe that we are still on the rise and that there will be more cases but I also believe that control measures are being put in place, isolation of cases, and monitoring of contacts and there will come a time when it will calm down.

2- This is not a pandemic, this is an outbreak that we are having that we have to study and that will surely be controlled well

Metadata

Date: 28/05/2022 12:00 (UTC)
Credit: EFE
Source: EFE
Topic: Health
Type: Rough cut
Duration: 225 seconds
Reference: 7001171230
Relevance: Normal