As of Saturday, 92 confirmed cases and 28 suspected monkey cases have been reported from 12 non-infected countries, the UN said, adding that it would provide further guidance and recommendations in the coming days on how to reduce it. the spread of monkeys. “The data available suggests that human-to-human transmission occurs among people closest to the symptomatic cases,” the organization said.
WHO alert
The World Health Organization says it hopes to identify more cases of meningitis as it increases screening in countries where the disease is not found.Monkey pox is a highly contagious disease, and it is found in parts of western and central Africa. It is distributed by close contact, so it can be easily detected by measures such as isolation and hygiene. “What seems to be happening now is that it has entered the human body as a sexually transmitted disease, as a sexually transmitted disease, and is being transmitted as a sexually transmitted disease, which has increased its prevalence worldwide,” said WHO chief executive David Heymann. infectious disease specialist, he said.
International expert committee
Heymann said an international expert committee met on a video conference to look at what needs to be learned about the outbreak and its transmission to the public, including whether there is an asymptomatic spread, high-risk, and various modes of transmission. He said the meeting was called “because of the urgency of the situation”. The committee is not the team that would propose the declaration of a global public health emergency, the WHO‘s highest-level approach, working on the COVID-19 epidemic.
He said close contact was a means of transmission, as the common wounds of the disease are highly contagious. For example, parents who care for sick children are at risk, as do health workers, which is why some countries have begun to inject groups of monkey patients using vaccines against smallpox, a related virus. Many current cases have been identified in sex clinics.
The early genomic sequence of a few cases in Europe has raised similarities to a species that spread to a limited extent in Britain, Israel and Singapore in 2018.Heymann said “biologically” the virus was circulating outside the countries where it was epidemic, but it was not leading to a major outbreak due to COVID-19 closures, population reductions and traffic restrictions..He emphasized that the outbreak was not the same as the early days of the COVID-19 epidemic because it was not easily transmitted. Those who suspect they may have been exposed or who show symptoms including flu outbreaks, should avoid close contact with others, he said. “There are vaccines available, but the most important message is, you can protect yourself,” he added.
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