Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton has lauded the community’s response to the infectious monkeypox disease as new infections have dropped across the state, despite fears case numbers would rise. | By Lachlan Abbott monkeypox
Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton has lauded the Victorian response to monkeypox as new infections have dropped across the state, despite fears case numbers would rise after an early spike.
The most recent figures on the Victorian Department of Health website show active monkeypox cases had fallen from 27 on September 2 to just seven on September 16. Victoria has recorded 67 monkeypox cases in total, but this tally has only grown by two since September 2.“Victoria has had no MPX [monkeypox] cases for a few weeks now, having had significantly early growth in cases,” Sutton tweeted on Friday afternoon.
“Lo and behold, those pillars of a public health response work. Case isolation, contact tracing and early testing through close engagement with at-risk community. Well done!”Sutton also particularly thanked members of the LGBT community for their responsiveness and engagement with health authorities.
“With over 60,000 cases globally the risk will continue for some time, so MPX vaccination will be really important to manage risk now and into the future,” he tweeted. Melbourne has been the epicentre of the infectious disease in Australia, accounting for about half of the country’s 135 cases in this outbreak, as of September 22.
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