WHO urges countries to strengthen surveillance for monkeypox

About 200 cases monkey pox and more than 100 suspected cases have been detected in countries where the disease is rarely reported. The WHO notes that health professionals should consider monkeypox as a possibility when diagnosing patients with a rash. This does not mean that anyone with the rash will get monkeypox, but it is important to raise awareness about the disease and ensure that countries have the capacity to test and provide appropriate information. fit.

Maria Van Kerkhove – Technical Team Leader of the World Health Organization said: “Transmission really happens through close body contact, skin-to-skin contact. So we have to pay more attention. Most of the people identified so far have milder illness, but anyone they come into contact with needs to be informed, so we can prevent further spread.” .

Monkeypox has spread to North America and Europe in recent weeks, sparking outbreaks in countries outside Central and West Africa, where the virus has been circulating at low levels for four decades. via. Facing this situation, the European Union (EU) is promoting a plan to buy vaccines and drugs to treat monkeypox and details of this plan will be agreed in the coming days. The rollout of monkeypox vaccination will be limited to very specific cases because the transmissibility and risk from the virus that causes this disease is not comparable to that of COVID-19.

Meanwhile, US health officials say that although monkeypox can be fatal, it is usually mild and most people recover in a few weeks. Therefore, overall, the risk that monkeypox poses to the population is relatively low and people should not be overly concerned at this time.

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