Sneaky2021
Member
The Department of Health (DOH) is currently drafting guidelines or health protocols for businesses that have close contact with customers including parlors, barbershops, and spas. Nothing will be lost if you wear gloves and then our facemask. Why? Because our barbers, and stylist beauticians are intimate contacts. Domingo said that DOH already signified its intent from the World Health Organization (WHO) to get access to smallpox vaccines to help protect against the mpox virus. Because the crisis is in Africa, that is where they prioritize pouring the vaccine, but we are very much interested and we have also signified our intent to the WHO that when the global strategy shifts and the distribution of vaccine starts, the Philippines already has its hands raised. Domingo said that the Philippines has cold chain and supply chain facilities that were used during the COVID-19 pandemic as storage for the vaccines. Health Secretary Ted Herbosa said Monday that only patients showing symptoms of mpox are getting treatment so far through supportive care. Common symptoms of mpox are a skin rash or mucosal lesions, which can last 2–4 weeks. The rashes are accompanied by fever, headache, muscle aches, back pain, low energy, and swollen lymph nodes. Anyone can get mpox, and the virus can be transmitted to humans through close and intimate contact with someone infectious, through contaminated materials like used clothes or utensils, or infected animals. The DOH has advised the use of soap and water to kill the virus and to use gloves when washing contaminated materials. So far, there are ten confirmed mpox cases in the country, with the recent one detected in a 33-year-old male Filipino national with no travel history outside the country “but with close, intimate contact three weeks before symptom onset.” President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has also tasked concerned agencies to continue monitoring the areas and individuals who are considered to be mostly vulnerable to mpox.
