The College of Nursing at Baghdad University organized a workshop entitled “Crimean fever and monkeypox” for members of the General Company for Automobile and Equipment Industry/ Ministerial Battery Laboratory in the presence of a number of members of the battery plant
The workshop aimed to identify the causes of crimean fever, monkeypox and ways of transmitting infection from animals to humans.
The workshop also included identifying signs and symptoms of infection, methods of diagnosis, methods of transmission of the virus to humans through livestock and monkeys, the duration of incubation of the virus and preventive measures to prevent transmission.
The workshop focused on following the health prevention measures of livestock breeders on how to deal with livestock and animals such as (sheep, cows, goats, ostriches as well as monkeys, avoiding contact with animal secretions and blood, as well as emphasizing the use of personal protection tools during the slaughter process and ensuring the health of livestock from injury before slaughtering them, as well as veterinarians to follow health safety measures to prevent infection during animal testing.
The researchers called for the need to follow health prevention measures to reduce the spread of the crimean virus infection and monkeypox and the Ministry of Health to emphasize the owners of massacres of livestock before slaughtering them, prevent livestock islands in unauthorized massacres and urge citizens to avoid buying meat from unlicensed butchers to keep them safe from infection.