Wed 06 July 2022:
According to the World Health Organization, more than 6,000 cases of monkeypox have been documented from 58 different countries so far in the current outbreak.
The WHO’s highest level of alert, the outbreak will be discussed at a meeting of the U.N. agency’s committee in the week commencing July 18 or earlier, said Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a virtual press conference from Geneva.
The committee ruled that the outbreak, which has seen cases rise both in the African nations where it typically spreads and abroad, was not yet a health emergency at its previous meeting on June 27.
“I continue to be concerned by the scale and spread of the virus across the world,” Tedros said, adding that a lack of testing meant that there were likely many more cases going unreported.
According to him, Europe accounts for almost 80% of the cases.
Since the beginning of May, monkeypox, a typically mild viral infection that results in flu-like symptoms and skin lesions, has been spreading throughout the world.
The fatality rate in previous outbreaks in Africa of the strain currently spreading has been around 1%, but so far this outbreak seems to be less lethal in the non-endemic countries.
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