Lauterbach shares new monkeypox findings - and promises almost a quarter of a million vaccine doses
Created: 05/31/2022, 04:51 am
By: Julia Volkenand, Christoph Gschoßmann
How dangerous is monkeypox?
Health Minister Karl Lauterbach emphasized that he does not expect a new pandemic from the virus.
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Monkeypox: More and more cases are being registered.
"It will be done soon": All clear from world medical director Montgomery?
First case in Ireland: The Emerald Isle has now also been hit.
Two high-risk contact cases were vaccinated in France.
Lauterbach shares findings: monkeypox is not a threat in the sense of a pandemic - first vaccine doses in June.
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Update from May 29, 7:21 p.m .:
Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach expects the first vaccine doses against monkeypox in the first two weeks of June.
"40,000 units should come in the first two weeks of June, then 200,000 units after that," said the SPD politician on Sunday on the ARD program "Report from Berlin".
A corresponding contract has been signed and the company is still waiting for its response.
"But I assume that we will have this vaccine very soon," Lauterbach said.
The minister stressed again that he does not expect a new pandemic from this virus.
"But I don't think monkeypox poses a threat in terms of a pandemic," Lauterbach said.
Nevertheless, one must curb the spread of monkeypox.
"We don't want it to get stuck either."
Monkeypox: Largest increase in case numbers in Portugal since the disease was first reported
Update from May 29, 5:09 p.m .:
Portugal has recorded the largest increase in monkeypox case numbers since May 18 – the time the disease was first reported by the local health authority DGS.
Accordingly, the country recorded 16 new cases, and there are a total of 74 confirmed monkeypox infections.
This was announced by the Portuguese health authority DGS on Friday (May 27).
Most of the infected are therefore in the region of Lisbon and the Tagus Valley.
All those currently affected are men and most of those infected are under the age of 40, the health authority said.
However, she also emphasized that it is not a disease that only affects men, as monkeypox infections have already been confirmed in women in the United Arab Emirates, Spain, the USA, Switzerland and other countries.
Monkeypox: Health Minister Karl Lauterbach explains how dangerous they are
Update from May 29, 3:08 p.m .:
How dangerous is monkeypox – and how quickly can it change, like the corona virus?
Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach explained on Twitter, "Monkeypox mutates very little and the new mutations so far do not indicate a new, higher R value." He shared a finding by Richard Neher from the Biozentrum in Basel.
Lauterbach: “The size of the infection clusters could be decisive.
But everything is still provisional.” Nevertheless, Lauterbach said: “That tends to be good news.”
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Update from May 29, 10:54 a.m .:
Monkeypox cannot be compared to Corona, experts say.
Nevertheless, there are two groups for which special caution against infection applies.
France: Two high-risk contacts vaccinated against monkeypox
Update from May 28, 3:31 p.m .:
In France, two people with risky contact with monkeypox infected people have been vaccinated against the virus.
As the German Press Agency learned from the General Health Directorate, both people had a dose of the smallpox vaccine Imvanex administered in a hospital in Paris on Friday.
The top French health authority had previously recommended vaccination after a risky contact.
French Health Minister Brigitte Bourguignon spoke of seven confirmed monkeypox cases in France in the middle of the week.
The situation is manageable.
There is sufficient vaccine for contact persons. In Great Britain, where significantly more infections with the virus have been registered, more than 1000 contact persons have already been vaccinated.
The country bought more than 20,000 doses of Imvanex.
No vaccinations are known in Germany, but "up to 40,000 doses" of the vaccine have been ordered.
Virologist Hendrik Streeck on monkeypox: "It makes you sit up and take notice"
Update from May 28, 2:58 p.m .:
The number of cases of people infected with monkeypox in Europe is increasing.
"That makes you sit up and take notice," says the virologist Hendrik Streeck, but above all he can give the all-clear.
First case of monkeypox confirmed in Ireland
Update from May 28, 2:54 p.m .:
A first case of monkeypox has also been confirmed in Ireland.
The Irish health authority announced on Saturday that there was a case in the east of the country on Friday evening.
The person concerned, about whom no further details have been made public, has not yet been treated in the hospital.
Your contacts should be notified.
There is also a suspected case in Ireland.
"This is not unexpected after the monkeypox cases in the UK and many other European countries," the statement said.
More than 100 cases of monkeypox have been identified in the UK.
World Medical Director Montgomery: "Monkeypox issue will soon be settled"
Munich - While the monkeypox is still spreading in Europe, the world doctor's boss is calm.
In an interview with the
Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung
, Frank Ulrich Montgomery explained that he did not expect an uncontrolled spread.
After all, it is a “disease that has essentially been known for years, the risk of infection is much lower than with Corona”.
You can catch the virus quite quickly with isolation, quarantine and vaccination of those at risk.
"The monkeypox issue will soon be settled."
Monkeypox: World Doctors boss sees no permanent danger
However, monkeypox is a warning that "with the increase in world population and increasing mobility and contact between humans and animals, the number of zoonoses and the viral diseases derived from them will continue to rise," said Montgomery.
The intervals between infections are getting smaller and smaller.
Frank Ulrich Montgomery, chairman of the World Medical Association, sees no risk of monkeypox in the future.
© Guido Kirchner/dpa
In order to counter this, the warning mechanisms of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the EU would have to be "sharpened", Montgomery demanded.
In addition, the population must be informed more quickly about risks.
"But, thirdly, a social consensus is also needed that science is listened to and not non-specialist objections from politics."
Monkeypox: WHO warns of more cases
At the same time, Sylvie Briand, director of the WHO department for preparedness for infection threats, said that the current cases could only be "the tip of the iceberg" and that an increase is very likely.
But she doesn't see any reason to panic either, monkeypox is not comparable to Corona, which can spread very quickly.
(dpa/jv)
