SINGAPORE: In a social media post on Saturday , Health Minister Ong Ye Kung discussed the risk of a next pandemic occurring, writing that health authorities are now paying far more attention to the po
ssibility in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The minister wrote that H5N1, which is popularly referred to as bird flu, is the one with the highest risk., the first severe case in the United States was announced on Dec 18 after an elderly person was hospitalized. However, he noted: “What we are keenly watching out for are evidence of human-to-human transmissions. If that happens, it may mean that H5N1 has mutated and poses a pandemic risk.”Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated earlier this year that the public health risk of bird flu is low, though this may change as the virus mutates.in the DRC, Mr Ong wrote that 6 per cent of those who have gotten infected, mostly children, have died.
“As malaria is common in that area, further tests are needed to exclude the possibility of other causative diseases,” the Health Minister wrote, adding that he finds the reporting of the illness as “Disease X” an inappropriate use of the term., Mr Ong wrote that while there have been sporadic imported cases in Thailand, the UK, the US, Germany, and other parts of Europe, most patients across the globe, including Africa, have had a smooth recovery, and the disease is not “very deadly.
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