Menkes Budi Gunadi Sadikin / News 24
Jakarta, Spasi-id.com - Monkeypox disease or monkey pox identified in Indonesia will not cause patients to experience symptoms that cause fatal situations.
According to the health minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin, the characteristics of monkey pox found in Indonesia and Asia may not be as severe as the cases in some African state. But he hasn't been able to verify the status or the monkey pox category of the invention of a DKI Jakarta patient because he's still waiting for details of the entire genome sequencing test.
"The monkey pox is two types, West Africa is equal to Central Africa, which one fatal is not fatal. And usually the many in Europe and the ones in Indonesia are not fatal," said Budi in Q & A 'The Third Health Working Group's agenda, which was broadcast through the YouTube Channel of the Department of Health of Ri, Monday (22 / 8) yesterday.
Budi mentioned, the condition of finding a monkey pox patient in Indonesia is well monitored and only experiencing mild symptoms. It also ensures that the infection of the monkey pox will not be as high as a corona virus that can be transmitted through a drople.
Budi continues, based on recent data, from 39- 40 thousand cases of confirmation of monkey pox in the world, at least 12 people who were recorded dead after being infected. As such, the fatality rate or the death rate of monkey pox is considered very low or ranging 0.04 to 0.05 percent.
"His interpretation was at the time of the circulating, unlike Covid-19," he said.
More importantly, Budi also made sure the Ministry of Health was ready to face the potential of monkey pox if it was ever expanding.
