China issues monkeypox prevention plan; experts expect cases to grow in July, but large-scale outbreak 'unlikely'

[Mary Wilson]

Published: Jul 27, 2023 09:23 PM
​By Leng Shumei

China issued a monkeypox prevention and control plan to optimize the country's measures against the infectious disease. The move comes amid growing monkeypox cases reported nationwide since June, leading to comparatively high risk of a domestic epidemic and hidden transmission, according to the National Administration of Disease Prevention and Control.

The plan was jointly released by the administration and the National Health Commission on Wednesday. It calls for multi-channel effective monitoring of medical institutes, key groups and international arrivals. Sewage monitoring can also be conducted in order to help discover and deal with the epidemic in a timely manner, according to the plan. ...

The plan also suggests people leaving China pay attention to the monkeypox situation at their destinations. For international arrivals who have suspicious contact history in areas with monkeypox reports, the plan recommends they conduct self-health monitoring for 21 days after entering China, avoid close contact with others and take the initiative to seek medical attention and truthfully report their epidemiological history if monkeypox-like symptoms - such as fever, rash, and lymphadenopathy - appear.

The Chinese mainland reported 106 new cases of monkeypox from June 2 to June 30 ...

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[Shiloh]

Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/01/1077047/china-public-health-crisis-mpox-outbreak/

China is suddenly dealing with another public health crisis: mpox
While the scale is vastly differently than covid, the government is already repeating some of the same mistakes.
By Zeyi Yang​
August 1, 2023


Hazmat suits, PCR tests, quarantines, and contact tracing—it was hard not to feel déjà vu last week when China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention published new guidance on how to contain a disease outbreak.

But what was happening was not another covid wave. Rather, the Chinese government was addressing a potentially significant new public health concern: mpox. The World Health Organization reports China is currently experiencing the world’s fastest increase in cases of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox), and the country needs to act fast to contain the spread.

While the Americas and Europe have mostly contained the mpox outbreak that started in mid-2022, Asia has emerged as the disease’s new hot spot. Japan, South Korea, and Thailand, which all saw sporadic imported cases last year, have reported weekly new case numbers in the double digits in 2023, meaning the virus has been spreading in the domestic population. But according to the latest data reported to the WHO, China has surpassed all other countries in the world, with 315 confirmed cases in just the past three months—though irregular case reporting from Beijing means it’s impossible to know the true scale of the disease at this point.​..

 

[sharon sanders]

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Experts call for calm as four more monkeypox cases were confirmed in two Chinese cities
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China - 2 cases of mpox found in Guangzhou, Guangdong province - June 11, 2023​

China - Bejing CDC: Two cases of mpox were found in Beijing - June 6, 2023​

China - Chongqing confirmed a case of imported monkeypox from abroad - September 16, 2022[/TD]
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China - State media: Gene sequencing suggests that the virus strain in the first monkeypox case reported on the mainland was highly homologous to strains from Germany​

China - Officials: 3 children diagnosed with monkepox in Jiezi, Chengdu, Sichuan province is a rumor - September 18, 2022​

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