Episode 22 - Agoritsa Baka - What Do You Know About Monkeypox?
ECDC: On Air
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
5 • 3 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Agoritsa Baka joins us once again to discuss the ongoing monkeypox outbreak that has seen large numbers of cases in Europe. Agoritsa explains what monkeypox is, where it comes from, and what you can do to keep safe.
You can find all of ECDC's resources on monkeypox here.
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| 0:00.0 | ECDC on air. |
| 0:05.0 | The podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control. |
| 0:09.0 | Keeping up to date with European Epidemiology. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello, welcome and thanks for tuning in to ECDC on air, the podcast of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. |
| 0:22.5 | I'm your host Lee, recording from our headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. |
| 0:26.2 | Today we are again joined by Agaritsabaka to discuss the ongoing monkeypox outbreak in Europe. |
| 0:31.6 | Agaritzer explains what monkeypox is and where it came from, but more importantly, she explains |
| 0:36.1 | how you can recognize symptoms and what |
| 0:38.3 | you can do to keep yourself safe. |
| 0:55.7 | Agaritsa, welcome. |
| 1:01.8 | Before we begin, I know we've spoken before, but could you briefly explain your primary role here at ECDC? |
| 1:03.5 | Yes, thank you. |
| 1:05.1 | It's nice to see you again. |
| 1:15.5 | I've been working at the ECDC since 2018 as a principal expert for preparedness and response in the EPRS section. |
| 1:22.6 | And in the last few years, I've been heavily involved in the public health emergency for COVID and currently for monkeypox. |
| 1:25.6 | Okay, so we are talking today about the current monkeypox outbreak. |
| 1:29.5 | Can you give us a bit of background on monkeypox? |
| 1:32.2 | So like what is it and where did it originate? |
| 1:35.2 | Yes, so monkeypox is a tropical disease. |
| 1:39.1 | And in the tropics, it infects people through contact with animals, mainly. And this could be either |
| 1:48.3 | bites or preparing what we call bushmeat in Africa, like little animals that are caught, |
| 1:55.9 | hunted and caught for food, preparing bushmeat for eating. And then what we used to see is small |
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