Canary Islands update monkeypox protocols, rule out specific measures for African migrants

Directorate General of Public Health Canarian Health Service (SCS) sent care protocol update encounter cases monkey pox prepared by the Ministry of Health following the agreement reached during the precautionary presentation between the Ministry and the Autonomous Communities.

At the same time, he emphasizes that It is not recommended to apply any special protocol to African migrants. which reaches the archipelago by sea, given that the WHO has not imposed any travel restrictions and that the vast majority of migrants arriving on the Canary coast do so from countries that do not currently have high levels of smallpox.

However, it is clarified that surveillance and actions will be adapted, as for any other person, to general criteria of suspicion, such as compatible clinical features, epidemiological link or origin, the ministry emphasized in a statement.

The General Directorate also sent them new measures agreed between the Ministry and the Autonomous Communities to strengthen epidemiological surveillance and monitoring and to promote vaccination.

The purpose of this document is to provide updated and consistent information in response to the new health alert issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) regarding the monkeypox outbreak. The focus is on the Republic of Congo

and in the countries neighboring it.

Thus, on the one hand, they were sent protocols to be followed by health workers when a possible case of monkeypox is suspected, and on the other, a reminder of the importance of vaccination against MPX, both before and after exposure.

At this point I remember that vaccination is not recommended Typically, people traveling to countries affected by hoard I.

However, a personalized assessment should be made in International Vaccination Centers decide on the need to offer them vaccinations taking into account the characteristics of the person and the trip itself.

In addition, they were also sent a summary report on the epidemiological situation of smallpox cases in Spain and data on the spread of clade I monkeypox virus in some African countries.