Experts provide guidance to healthcare professionals

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Commentary posted in Annual report of internal medicine Provides guidance to healthcare professionals who are in contact with patients with monkeypox. Although the authors are unlikely that monkeypox will reach the COVID-19 pandemic epidemic, physicians and other healthcare professionals are adhering to suspicious indicators and careful adherence to appropriate infection control precautions as the outbreak progresses. It says that you need to pay attention.

Monkeypox is a virus belonging to the genus Ortopoxvirus of the Poxvirus family, including smallpox virus and bovine variola virus. The authors advise that healthcare professionals should follow the guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to protect themselves and safely manage cases of monkeypox. The guidelines recommend wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), using approved disinfectants, not engaging in procedures for aerosolizing the virus, and engaging in careful contact tracing to prevent further spread. Matters are included. The authors advise that careful management of monkeypox cases when healthcare professionals encounter monkeypox can prevent monkeypox from joining the ongoing staff shortage. They emphasize that public health workers and health workers are exhausted because COVID-19 has already run out of public health resources and there is a public desire to engage in risk mitigation. They added that the potential for dealing with new infectious pathogens could add to their existing stress, which should be acknowledged and mitigated as much as possible.

The authors also found that infection control responses kept the most affected patient populations stigmatized and instead worked with gay, bisexual, and other male communities to have sex with men to fight monkeypox. It warns that an alliance needs to be formed.