French health system placed in “state of maximum vigilance”, announces Gabriel Attal

French health authorities are closely monitoring the new variant of mpox, the first case of which was reported in Sweden on Thursday, August 15. A first outside the African continent where the epidemic is raging. In the process, the WHO warned of the very strong possibility that new “imported cases” of the disease are identified on the European continent. In France, the resigning Prime Minister announced that the French health system would be placed “in a state of maximum vigilance”Friday August 16 on X.

This vigilance therefore implies that the government is introducing new “information and recommendation measures” for travelers leaving and returning from risk areas, Gabriel Attal detailed in his message. This vigilance also has the consequence that the executive gives “instructs regional health agencies to relay the most recent information and health recommendations to health structures and professionals and to associations linked to at-risk populations”.

As for vaccination, the resigning government seizes “without delay the health authorities so that they can decide on the course of action to be taken in terms of updating the recommendations on the target populations”.

Finally, the tenant of Matignon also announced that France will “to donate vaccines to the most affected countries”, “in accordance with our values ​​of international solidarity and the health priority of containing the epidemic outbreak in Africa”.

For his part, the resigning Minister Delegate for Health, Frédéric Valletoux, clarified on X that “the response pattern” set up “since 2022”during the first epidemic of what was then called “monkey pox”, was to be “intensified”.