A senior WHO official said the organization does not believe that Monkeypox outbreak Outside the continent of Africa, mass vaccination campaigns should be launched, as other measures such as good personal hygiene and safe sexual behavior will contribute to controlling its spread.
This comes as the World Health Organization announced the registration of 131 confirmed cases of monkeypox, and 106 suspected cases in 19 countries.
The immediate supplies of vaccines and antivirals are relatively limited, Richard Peabody, who leads the High-Threat Pathogens Team at the World Health Organization in Europe, said in an interview with Archyde.com.
Peabody’s comments came as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that In the process of releasing doses of the “Genius” vaccine for use in cases of monkeypox.
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On Monday, the German government said it was studying the options available with regard to vaccinations, and Britain had given vaccinations to its health care workers.
Public health authorities in Europe and North America are checking more than 100 suspected or confirmed cases of viral infection in the worst outbreak of the virus outside Africa, where it is endemic.
Peabody said that the basic measures to control the outbreak are tracing and isolating contact, noting that it does not spread very easily and has not yet caused the emergence of a serious disease. He added that the vaccines used to combat monkeypox may carry some serious side effects.
The cause of the outbreak is not clear, as scientists seek to understand the source of the cases and whether anything has changed in the virus.
On Monday, Rosamund Lewis, director of the smallpox emergency program at the World Health Organization, said the organization had no evidence that the monkeypox virus had mutated.
It is reported that the World Health Organization announced that it It will provide more guidance and recommendations to countries About how to reduce the spread of infection.
This infection is transmitted between people in close physical contact, especially with cases that show symptoms, according to what the United Nations explained.
However, she stressed, in a message of reassurance, that the outbreak of this disease is not at all similar in any way to the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic because it is not easily transmitted.
