Adachi Eisuke, Otani Amato, Yotsuyanagi Hiroshi, Saijo Masayuki, Saito Tomoya
Department of Infectious Diseases and Applied Immunology, IMSUT Hospital of the Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
Glob Health Med. 2024 Apr 30;6(2):156-159. doi: 10.35772/ghm.2023.01089.
At the beginning of the mpox (disease caused by monkey pox) epidemic, there was no platform in Japan to provide appropriate information on emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), and the number of accesses to bioterrorism-related information sites increased rapidly. Even though the interest in mpox was much smaller than in coronavirus infectious disease, emerged in late 2019 (COVID-19), the increase in the number of views were much greater than during the COVID-19 epidemic. This may not be because mpox is bioterrorism-related as an analog of smallpox, but rather because there were no other websites providing information on mpox. For future crisis management, there should be a platform to provide information on possible epidemics of EIDs from normal times in Japan.
在猴痘(由猴痘病毒引起的疾病)疫情初期,日本没有一个平台能够提供有关新出现和再次出现的传染病(EIDs)的适当信息,而与生物恐怖主义相关信息网站的访问量迅速增加。尽管对猴痘的关注度远低于2019年末出现的冠状病毒传染病(COVID-19),但其浏览量的增长幅度却远大于COVID-19疫情期间。这可能并非因为猴痘作为天花的类似物与生物恐怖主义相关,而是因为没有其他网站提供有关猴痘的信息。对于未来的危机管理,日本应该有一个平台,从平时就提供有关EIDs可能流行的信息。