A top Chinese health official has urged citizens to avoid contact with foreigners to avoid infecting monkeys after the first known case of the virus was reported in China.
To avoid possible smallpox infection and as part of our healthy lifestyle, it is highly recommended not to have direct skin contact,” Wu Zunyu, chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said on his official Weibo. . page on Saturday . with foreigners.”
Wu also urged people to avoid such contacts with people who have been abroad in the last three weeks, as well as all “strangers”, also urging caution.
And the southwest Chinese city of Chongqing reported a monkey infection in a person from abroad on Friday, the first known infection in China amid the global outbreak.
The CDC later said that a 29-year-old Chinese national who traveled to Chongqing on Sept. 14 from Spain was infected.
The city’s health commission said in a statement that the risk of transmission is low and the infected person is quarantined on arrival in Chongqing. All of his contacts were isolated and placed under medical supervision.
Source: EuroNews
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