The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported the current record of monkey pox. Currently, more than 6,000 cases of infection are known from 58 countries.
Monkey pox: over 6,000 cases worldwide. Is this already a pandemic?
Published July 7, 2022 09:41
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The UN agency will re-convene a committee meeting that will decide on the declaration of a global health threat, WHO's highest alert level in the coming weeks. This information was provided by the CEO of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a press conference in Geneva.
"At its previous meeting (June 27), the committee decided that the epidemic, which saw an increase in cases both in African countries, where it usually spreads, and in other parts of the world, was not a global health threat at the time," said the director of the WHO. due to the lack of testing, there are probably many more infections.
About 80 percent of the cases, he says, occur in Europe. Monkey pox, an usually mild viral infection that causes flu-like symptoms and skin lesions, has been spreading around the world since early May. The mortality rate from previous epidemics in Africa of the current spreading strain was around 1 percent, but so far this epidemic appears to be less lethal in non-endemic countries.
Source: Reuters
