No threat of monkeypox in Poland, says health minister
Poland's health minister has said that monkeypox is not an epidemiological problem on a par with coronavirus and that there are currently no cases of the disease in Poland.
Speaking at a press briefing on Monday, Adam Niedzielski said: "We are dealing with a risk or a threat which is of an entirely different nature and scale.
"We have assessed the risk in terms of the transmissibility of the disease, its possible severity, its course, including in terms of the potential immunization of the population, because we had a basic pox vaccine. Until the 1980s everyone was vaccinated."
Speaking at a press briefing on Monday, Adam Niedzielski said that the risk and threat from monkeypox was ‘entirely different’ to coronavirus and added that ‘in a few months none of you will remember it’.
Adding that one person suspected of having the disease has now been verified as negative, he described the risk as "relatively small" with no cases in Poland and gave his assurance that vaccines had been secured for medical staff.
He said: "For now we believe that a thousand doses should be sufficient.”
He added: “I think that in a few months none of you will remember it."
