At this time, the organization has no information about those who died as a result of infection with the virus.
Cases of monkeypox are recorded in the world / Photo: collage: “Today”
The World Health Organization (WHO) is assessing the risk of spread monkeypoxglobally as moderate. However, it does not rule out that the situation may worsen.
Reuters writes about it.
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As of May 26, the World Health Organization has information on 257 laboratory-confirmed and 120 suspected cases of monkeypox. No deaths were reported.
“At present, the overall public health risk at the global level is assessed as moderate given that this is the first case of simultaneous reporting of cases and clusters of monkeypox cases in widely disparate WHO geographic areas and with no known epidemiological links to non-endemic countries in West or Central Africa” , the message says.
Cases of infection are mainly registered among men who practice same-sex sex.
The sudden appearance and wide geographic coverage of many cases indicates that widespread human-to-human transmission is already occurring and the virus may have circulated undetected for weeks or longer.
Smallpox is not a new disease
monkeypox not a new disease. The first confirmed human case occurred in 1970 when the virus was detected in a child in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Monkeypox is unlikely to cause another pandemic, but given COVID-19, the fear of another major outbreak is understandable. Although monkeypox is rare, it still has the potential to cause severe disease. Health officials are concerned that more cases will arise with more travel.
Source: Segodnya
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