Faced with the resurgence of the MPOX epidemic in the world, the Pasteur Institute said it was ready to " test and vaccinate patients at the request of the authorities » French, which have not yet been listed « no contamination » on the territory.
The Pasteur Institute says it is ready
“ Since this weekend, after activation by the General Directorate of Health (DGS), the emergency biological intervention unit (CIBU) of the Pasteur Institute has been analyzing, at the request of the health authorities, suspect samples.", the Institute said in a statement.
The Pasteur Institute medical center, specialized in travel medicine, which had treated patients with COPD during the previous epidemic in 2022, " has triggered its internal protocol allowing it to test patients presenting symptoms suggestive of MPOX (…) under optimal safety conditions". It also stands " available to health authorities to vaccinate within its walls all people from the populations targeted by the health recommendations currently being reassessed" he assured.
“ This is a serious health situation.", commented Yasmine Belkaid, general director of the Pasteur Institute, quoted in the press release. " Today we are ready to test and vaccinate patients at the request of the authorities. »
The French health system in a “state of maximum vigilance”
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced Friday that the French health system was being placed on "maximum alert" after an initial meeting with the ministers in charge of the subject. A new meeting was held at Matignon on Monday afternoon. To date, no contamination by clade 1 has yet been identified in France.", the government specified in a "health update" published Monday evening on its website and social networks. The government details the symptoms and modes of contamination and recalls that clade 2, itself, " has been circulating discreetly in France since the 2022 epidemic, with a monthly number of reported cases varying between 12 and 26 between January and June 2024“.
It also specifies the number of the "Mpox info service" (08 01 90 80 69), a free telephone information service. open every day from 8am to 11pm" . In an interview a The Sunday Tribune, the resigning Minister Delegate for Health Frederic Valletoux said he expected that " sporadic cases "of the new variant of mpox" appear, and probably soon " In France.
On Thursday, Sweden announced that it had recorded a case of clade 1b subtype, the same strain that has appeared in the Democratic Republic of Congo since September 2023, more deadly and virulent than clade 2, endemic in West Africa. A case was also announced in Asia, in Pakistan.
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