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The director of the Institute of Global Health at the University of Geneva believes that “it is a fairly stable virus which does not mutate much”.
In less than 24 hours, he went from a suspected case to a confirmed case. A 29-year-old man, residing in the Paris region, is well first patient with monkeypox on French territory, announced the Directorate General of Health, Friday, May 20. As soon as his infection was suspected, this person was taken care of and, in the absence of seriousness, is isolated at his home.
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Asked by franceinfo, epidemiologist Antoine Flahault believes that“we must certainly be very vigilant but the monkeypox but it has nothing to do with Covid-19 at the moment.”
“It’s a DNA virus, it’s a pretty stable virus that doesn’t mutate a lot.”
Antoine Flahault, epidemiologistat franceinfo
According to the Swiss, who is also director of the Institute of Global Health at the University of Geneva, “there seems to be a sexual contamination of men to men, homosexual or bisexual. And that is not at all the usual case with this virus”.
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