OREANDA-NEWS On May 24, German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach announced the introduction of a 21-day quarantine for monkeys infected with smallpox in the country, RIA Novosti writes. It is noted that the Ministry of Health of the country is in the process of negotiations with suppliers of vaccines against this disease. According to the forecasts of the department, Germany can only face local outbreaks of the disease.

Today, together with the authorities of the federal states, we have implemented the recommendations of the Robert Koch Institute, the infected should be isolated for at least 21 days, Lauterbach said during a press conference.

On May 22, Belgium introduced a quarantine for those infected with monkeypox and became the first country to do so for the disease. The quarantine period is 21 days.

So far, 131 cases of monkeypox infection among humans have been confirmed in 17 countries, and another 106 cases are under investigation. Spain has the most confirmed cases, according to the World Health Organization.

Britain has previously suggested that monkeypox is being used by Russia as a bioweapon. This idea was prompted by the activities of the Soviet microbiologist Kanatzhan Alibekov, who had been developing bioweapons in the Biopreparat association since the 1970s. One of Alibekov's subjects of study was monkeypox.

The chief researcher at the Gamaleya Center, Anatoly Altshtein, called the information that Russia allegedly considered the possibility of using the monkeypox virus as a bioweapon, because this disease is poorly transmitted from person to person, a serious fake.