AMMAN — On Sunday, the
Jordanian National Center for Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases Control (JCDC) met to discuss the issue of monkeypox,
according to Al-Mamlaka TV.
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The meeting gathered representatives of the Ministry
of Health’s central labs and its Directorate of Communicable Diseases, and
reviewed “mechanisms for preventing the spread of the virus and dealing with
suspected cases, if they occur, the method of taking samples and transferring
them to central labs safely, and the importance of raising awareness about the
virus among health cadres and citizens”.
Member of the JCDC Rima Hajjo said that this virus
is not new to humanity, it is present in many countries in south and
West Africa, and a lot is known about the manner in which it spreads.
Hajjo said that “when a sudden increase in cases
occurs, this calls us to analyze the reasons that lead to this increase and the
spread of the virus in geographical areas that do not originally have it”.
“We know that traveling and movement are factors
that lead to the rapid spread of the virus, but there are other reasons as
well, and usually we want to know if there were mutations of the virus which
facilitated its spread among humans, and this is currently the main priority.
What raises concerns is that symptoms are becoming less severe, which allows
the virus to be less noticeable,” she added.
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