The infectiologist considers that smallpox of monkeys cannot be considered as a pandemic
Smallpox of monkeys cannot be considered as a pandemic as number of the diseased small, and the virus does not possess high contageousness, such opinion was expressed in conversation with information agency "ITAR-TASS" by the infectiologist Eugenie Timakov. — The virus, maybe, in something changed, but does not constitute danger on a global scale — it gave the comment and noted that the virus is transmitted only at close contact with infected. At infection of the person from an animal the virus is more dangerous, than by transfer from the person to the person. Eugenie Timakov called the increased supervision over the persons driving to Russian Federation from the countries where cases are already recorded...