00:00The health department is concerned about the community transmission of M-Pox
00:06after a new case was discovered in Metro Manila.
00:10Contact tracing is being done for this case and Joseph Moro was found guilty.
00:18A 33-year-old man from Metro Manila was found with M-Pox or Monkeypox.
00:25He was the first case after the declaration of the World Health Organization or WHO
00:30that the M-Pox was a global health emergency last week.
00:33According to the DOH, the man was not traveling outside the Philippines.
00:38But he experienced a plague that followed the monkey that was swimming
00:42in the face, back, body, groin, liver and lungs.
00:47He was in a government hospital with a confirmable M-Pox case only yesterday.
00:52The DOH is now conducting contact tracing.
00:55That means the virus is here in the Philippines.
00:58We had nine cases in 2023, but we are testing it little by little.
01:05So that means the M-Pox virus is among us.
01:09So it's not important that it's here.
01:12So that's a warning to everybody.
01:14This is a community transmission.
01:16According to the WHO, M-Pox is a disease like but not a disease of smallpox.
01:23It's like a bottle with water inside.
01:26It starts with a bottle with water inside.
01:29But what makes it different from a bottle with water inside is that
01:32when it gets old, the inside of the bottle becomes hard.
01:35There are reports that it's contagious.
01:37Others say it's painful.
01:38According to the Department of Health,
01:40the wearing of face masks should not be repeated
01:44even the social distancing that was done during the COVID pandemic.
01:47According to the DOH, it's not like the COVID airborne
01:50that the M-Pox is transmitted through close and intimate contact.
01:55COVID is airborne.
01:57So it's fast, right?
01:59You can just ride a bus, a train, or a jeepney.
02:03You can get infected.
02:04Unlike this one, close and intimate contact.
02:07It's close, but it dies in soap and water.
02:11It's also not necessary to close the borders
02:14where the M-Pox will be transferred to the things or clothes that it has.
02:19But it's easy to die from soap.
02:22That's why the DOH recommends washing your hands frequently.
02:26According to the DOH,
02:27there are some industries like spas and parlors
02:30that the DOH is giving reminders
02:32to avoid the spread of the M-Pox.
02:35This is the area where there's contact, right?
02:38You hold the patient, you massage the client,
02:41you massage there, parlors, spas.
02:44So we will be coming out with something,
02:46what do you call this?
02:47Memes.
02:48Very specific for them.
02:4917 hospitals are recommended by the DOH
02:52that can be visited by those who are suspected to have M-Pox.
02:55We have M-Pox, but we shouldn't be worried
02:59because of COVID.
03:02We are worried because many of us are uncertain
03:05and don't know.
03:07M-Pox was first determined in 1957
03:11as an illness.
03:14But it's also good to be careful.
03:19For GMA Integrated News,
03:21Joseph Morong,
03:22for 24 Hours.
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