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  • Monkeypox virus: Abu Dhabi and Dubai step up monitoring

    May 20, 2022
    The National

    Health chiefs in Abu Dhabi and Dubai are stepping up safety measures to guard against the potential spread of the monkeypox virus.

    Both Abu Dhabi Department of Health and Dubai Health Authority urged medical facilities on Friday to remain vigilant over the virus in notices issued on Friday.

    A circular from The DHA stressed in its notice that the World Health Organisation had “stated that the likelihood of spread from Europe globally is high”.

    “Thus, the potential of the introducing of this resistant strain locally is possible", the DHA said in the circular, published on its website.

    It urged healthcare workers to bolster monitoring by “performing the required confirmatory RT-PCR test and gene sequencing to trace the infection source” in cases of suspected infection.

    This should be followed by the immediate reporting of lab confirmed cases to the preventive medicine section of the authority.

    Anyone found to have the disease should be isolated in a healthcare facilities, with checks to be made on close contacts to prevent further spread.

    Abu Dhabi Department of Health sent a similar message to healthcare providers.

    "The probability of importation of cases to the UAE is high due to the increase in international travel," the circular stated.

    "Therefore, all healthcare providers must comply with the following: Enhance vigilance to identify cases fitting the case definition; Report any suspected, probable or confirmed case in the Infectious Disease Notification System under occurrence of unusual disease; Send clinical rash sample to the reference lab at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City."
    told of the need to “enhance and promote the early detection of the disease”.

    It said it was “raising the level of epidemiological surveillance of monkeypox cases” in Dubai with immediate effect.


    ... The DHA stressed in its notice that the World Health Organisation had “stated that the likelihood of spread from Europe globally is high”.

    “Thus, the potential of the introducing of this resistant strain locally is possible", the DHA said in the circular, published on its website.

    It urged healthcare workers to bolster monitoring by “performing the required confirmatory RT-PCR test and gene sequencing to trace the infection source” in cases of suspected infection.

    This should be followed by the immediate reporting of lab confirmed cases to the preventive medicine section of the authority.

    Anyone found to have the disease should be isolated in a healthcare facilities, with checks to be made on close contacts to prevent further spread.

    Abu Dhabi Department of Health sent a similar message to healthcare providers.

    "The probability of importation of cases to the UAE is high due to the increase in international travel," the circular stated.

    "Therefore, all healthcare providers must comply with the following: Enhance vigilance to identify cases fitting the case definition; Report any suspected, probable or confirmed case in the Infectious Disease Notification System under occurrence of unusual disease; Send clinical rash sample to the reference lab at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City."



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