The Continuing Education and Development at the University of Basrah organized an online workshop on monkeypox.
The aim of the workshop is to familiarize the participants with the importance of monkeypox and its danger to societies.
The workshop, presented by Prof. Dr. Kamal Al-Din Muhalhal Al-Saad, included identifying monkey pox after its spread in many African countries first and then some European and American countries, as well as discussing the epidemiology of this disease and presenting the clinical symptoms that characterize it with the definition of the methods of transmission from animal to human and from human to human and identifying the methods of treatment and prevention. In addition to the the identification of the causes of the disease, methods of transmission, the epidemiological situation of the disease now, the symptoms of the disease, the possible treatment of the disease, and the control and prevention.
In the end, the recommendation was to take the preventive measures followed, such as washing hands, following up on diseased or suspicious cases if they appeared and reporting them, not mixing with infected patients or using their tools such as clothes and bedding, as well as following up on people in contact with infected people and informing the health authorities of them.
