The World Health Organization (WHO) said in a second reassuring statement about the virus that appeared in the past that there was no need for “extensive monkeypox vaccination campaigns” and that “the number of infections in 20 countries around the world has reached about 200.” . “
“In countries where the disease is not endemic, the priority should be to control monkey pox,” a senior UN official said Friday. “This can be done quickly.”
According to Reuters, Sylvie Bryand, director of the World Health Organization’s Department of Infectious Diseases Preparedness, told a meeting of member states at the organisation’s annual meeting that if countries “take the right action now, they can easily curb it.” .
It also said earlier that there was no need to panic and launch massive vaccination campaigns after registering 131 confirmed cases and 106 suspected cases in 19 countries at the time.
“It does not turn out to be an epidemic like the coronavirus, because there is a vaccine for it and it calls on countries to be transparent in the event of an infection,” he said.
“Infectious diseases that are endemic to West and Central Africa are usually not prone to mutations,” he explained.
However, he warned, the virus is spread mostly through “close contact between people with multiple sexual partners.”
It is worth noting that this type of smallpox appeared about two weeks ago, but the registration of the infection in countries outside of origin or in countries where it had appeared, attracted the attention of global health.
Source: Lebanon Debate
