Monkeypox: Use experience from Covid-19


PETALING JAYA: Healthcare professionals should learn from the lessons of Covid-19 in managing monkeypox, say experts, urging Malaysians not to overreact to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) announcement of the outbreak as a global health emergency.

Calling for stricter surveillance of travellers entering the country, they also want public education and awareness of the disease, which has so far killed five people out of over 16,000 infections in 70 nations.

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