World Health Organization organized a press conference at which it announced the launch highest level of alert. It is about the progressive increase in the number of cases of monkey pox in Africa.
WHO issues highest alert. It is about the increase in monkeypox cases
As indicated by the General Director WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesusan emergency committee was convened on Wednesday. After the meeting, its members reported that, in their opinion, the situation was a public health threat of international concern.
The organization's chairman said the detection and rapid spread of the infection in the east had raised great concern. Democratic Republic of the Congo. Shortly afterwards, the disease was also detected in neighbouring countries where no cases of monkeypox had been previously reported.
WHO points to the possibility of the disease spreading to other African countries and later also other parts of the world.
– It's obvious that a coordinated international response is essentialto stop the epidemic and save lives, said the WHO Director-General.
Monkeypox is taking its toll. Several thousand cases of the disease
AP reports that compared to the same period last year, the number of monkeypox cases increased by 160 percent The mortality rate is also 19 percent higher.
Monkey pox has already been detected this year in 13 countries. It got sick of her over 14 thousand people. 524 of them did not survive the infection.
This is the second time in the past two years that WHO has declared the disease a global public health emergency.
What is monkeypox?
Monkey pox is viral diseasewhich presents with symptoms resembling those of the flu: fever, enlarged lymph nodes, muscle pain and headaches. In some cases, purulent lesions on the skin may also occur.
The disease is usually mild. Its name comes from the fact that the virus was first detected in macaques.
Due to the nature of the virus, it is easily transmitted to other people. It can also be transmitted through contact with wild animals. The disease was first observed in 1970 in Congo.
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