A professor from the department of Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, Prof. Sanjay Rai said that there is no need to panic about the Monkey Pox (Mpox) and that the disease won’t lead to another pandemic like COVID. Rai said that unlike COVID, the Monkey-Pox has been in the world for around 50 years, and that in these years, enough evidence has been gathered to say that it won’t be as intense as COVID.
Rai was speaking on the sidelines of “Kashmir Science Vision-2024”, an academic feast held at Sher-i-Kashmir University of Agriculture Sciences and Technology (SKUAST) in collaboration with the Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS). Prof. Sanjay Rai Department of Community Medicine AIIMS New Delhi talks about M-pox on the sidelines of ” Kashmir Science Vision-2024, an academic feast held today at SKAUST in joint collaboration with SKIMS.
— Sher-i-Kashmir Institute Of Medical Sciences (@DirectorSkims) “We didn’t know anything about COVID, and that resulted in a pandemic across the globe, but it’s different in the case of Monkey-Pox,” Rai said. He said enough research has been done, and the modern medicine believes in evidence-based medications, which has been acquired in the case of MPox. Rai said the first time the case of Mpox was registered, was back in 1970 in a child.
He further said that the infectivity of the Mpox is not capable enough to create a pandemic like situation. After a month or two, .