France has notified 2,171 acne cases of vaccination exceeding 40,000 doses

China News Service, August 3rd. According to Reuters, French Minister of Health Francois Braun said on the 2nd that a total of 2171 people in France were diagnosed with infection of monkey acne virus.

According to reports, Blaun said that France was one of the first countries to be vaccinated by free monkey acne vaccines. As of now, the country has provided 42,000 doses of vaccines.

He also said that France has enough monkey acne vaccine to vaccinate about 250,000 people.

Earlier in July, in order to curb the epidemic of monkey acne, France announced free screening of monkey acne startup and completed the diagnosis through clinical examinations and biological tests.

The French Ministry of Health previously reported that most patients with acne infection have symptoms such as rash, fever, and lymphadenopathy. The French health regulatory department recommends a nucleic acid amplification test, and detects mucosa, skin and oral samples in order.

Recently, many European and American countries have reported multiple cases of monkey acne virus clusters. The World Health Organization (WHO) said that the cases of monkey acne often occurred in West Africa and China Africa, while the diagnosis and suspected cases reported by many countries do not have any history of travel in the epidemic region of monkey acne. This situation is not normal.

On July 23, the Director -General of the WHO Tan Dezai announced that the current monkey acne epidemic has constituted "PHEIC" (PHEIC). This is the highest -level public health alert currently released by WHO.

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