Responding to queries from The Straits Times, MOH added on Saturday that as at Friday, no monkeypox cases have been detected here, apart from the imported case from NigeriaThe virus has been seen in central and west Africa, but over recent weeks cases have been detected in in nine European countries, as well as the US, Canada and Australia.
“Generally, sustained human-to-human transmission has been rare thus far. But we will need to study this again for the current outbreak,” added the spokesman. The ministry added that travellers should also avoid contact with wild animals and consumption of bush meat. When asked if it could become the next pandemic, Associate Professor Alex Cook, vice-dean of research at National University of Singapore’s Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, said: “At the early stage of any outbreak there is uncertainty on the nature of the epidemic, but so far, there is no cause for alarm.”
“It is hard to conceive of how an epidemic of monkeypox in Singapore would get so out of hand that a community lockdown would be needed.” Bush meat comes from wild animals, and is a popular source of protein in various parts of Africa, where meat from domesticated animals is scarce or expensive.
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