Today, Friday, the World Health Organization called for “urgent action” to reduce…An outbreak of monkeypox in Europe With the number of infected people tripled in the last two weeks on the continent.
In a statement, the organization’s regional director called on European countries to “intensify their efforts in the coming weeks and months to avoid the endemicity of monkeypox in a larger geographical area.”
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WHO Director-General for Europe, Hans Kluge, said:Urgent and coordinated action If we want to make a difference in the race once morest the outbreak.”
According to WHO data, Europe recorded more than 4,500 confirmed cases, three times more than what was recorded until mid-June.
This number constitutes 90% of the infections that were counted in the world since mid-May, when this disease, which was limited to ten African countries, began spreading in Europe.
Europe has become a focus for the spread of monkeypox, and cases of this disease have been recorded in 31 European countries or regions.
And the experts of the World Health Organization considered, on Saturday, that the increase in the number of cases has become a health threat of great concern, But it has not yet reached the level of a global health emergency.
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But the WHO Europe branch noted that “the rapid development and urgency of this event mean that the expert committee will reconsider its position soon.”
In a related context, the acting director of Africa’s largest public health agency said on Thursday that the continent does not have vaccines once morest monkeypox, and warned of a shortage of examination and testing tools.
“Monkeypox is an emergency here on the continent and we call on all our friends and partners to cooperate with us in controlling this outbreak,” Ahmed Oguil Oma, acting director of the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told a news conference.
