The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed the prevalence of “monkey pox” in the eastern Mediterranean after raising international concern amid concerns about an increase in the number of cases during the summer months.
However, scientists have focused their efforts on disclosing all information related to the virus, which will facilitate the process of dealing with it after registering cases in several separate countries.
“The organization has not yet been officially notified,” Ivan Boliva, chief medical officer of the Infection Prevention and Global Health Unit at the Eastern Mediterranean, told Sky News. Emergence of cases in the countries of the region.
The WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region is made up of 22 countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Tunisia, Iran, Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, Libya, Egypt, Morocco, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. , Yemen, Djibouti, Sudan and Somalia.
Bolivia explains that monkey pox is a rare disease that mainly occurs in remote areas of central and western Africa near tropical rainforests, but there is no cure or vaccine to fight the disease, although previous vaccination against smallpox has been very effective in preventing it. It was effective.
According to the World Health Organization, smallpox was first identified in humans in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in a 9-year-old boy living in an area where smallpox was eradicated in 1968.
In recent weeks, cases have been reported in Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Sweden, as well as in the United States, Canada and Australia, raising concerns about the virus.
Symptoms of this rare disease include fever, muscle aches, swollen lymph nodes, chills, fatigue, and chickenpox rash on the hands and face.
According to the World Health Organization, people with monkey pox usually recover after two to four weeks.
Source: Lebanon Debate
