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00:00Forty-one close contacts of the man who tested positive for Mpox were monitored by the authorities in Quezon City.
00:07And in the midst of the worries, the Department of Health assured that this is an old variant and not the new strain detected in Africa.
00:15Witness, Bernadette Reyes.
00:17Two establishments in Quezon City are being targeted now after a 33-year-old man who tested positive for Mpox was brought to the area.
00:31After the man passed away on August 8, he went to a spa on Rodriguez Avenue on August 11 to get a massage.
00:40On August 15, he was taken to a dermatology clinic in Luzon.
00:45In the doctor's assessment, the patient also found skin lesions on his face, arms, back, and other parts of his body.
00:54Last week, the specimen and positive shocker Mpox came out.
01:00I need an intimate close contact, prolonged intimate close contact for you to get infected.
01:06Forty-one close contacts are being monitored.
01:10Ten of them are spa staff.
01:12Twenty-seven are spa clients.
01:14He also has four other possible relatives.
01:18Twenty-eight of the close contacts were quarantined until September 1 and are considered Type 1 or more likely to get infected.
01:27The spa was closed because the mayor's permit expired and there was no sanitary permit, environmental clearance, and fire inspection certificate.
01:36The typical Type 1 close contact is the masseur who handles the patient and also the clients who were exposed to our case.
01:49None of them had exhibiting symptoms at this time.
01:54According to the Kasan City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit, close contacts of the patient are monitored every day.
02:01It is important to detect early the symptoms to isolate and avoid the spread of Mpox.
02:09President Bongbong Marcos ordered the government agencies to continue monitoring against Mpox, particularly in vulnerable sectors.
02:20According to the World Health Organization, the symptoms of Mpox include skin lesions,
02:25fever, rashes, headache, headache, back pain, and swelling of the lymph nodes.
02:33On June 26, almost 1,000 new cases of Mpox were declared, most of them in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa.
02:43Last week, the WHO declared a global public health emergency.
02:48According to the WHO, following the outbreak of the new strain of Mpox, clade 1b, it is easier to spread through frequent close contact.
02:58But according to the Agence France-Presse, the DOH said that the case of Mpox in the Philippines is an old variant of the virus.
03:06It is not as alarming as clade 1b.
03:10Mpox is not the new COVID.
03:13Regardless of whether it's Mpox clade 1, behind the ongoing outbreak in East Central Africa,
03:20or Mpox clade 2, behind the 2022 outbreak that initially impacted Europe and has continued to circulate in Europe since.
03:29The WHO also does not recommend mass vaccination against Mpox.
03:35Only those at risk are recommended to be vaccinated, such as close contacts.
03:40We don't have a vaccine yet.
03:42Even for our countrymen, we should get a vaccine.
03:47If there is no vaccine, we need to detect the cases early to isolate and quarantine the close contacts.
03:57For GMA Integrated News, Bernadette Reyes is your witness.
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