Al-Marsad newspaper: On Saturday, the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a global health emergency, which is the highest level of alert the organization has.
“We can control monkeypox, which has so far infected regarding 17,000 people in 74 countries, and stop its spread using the means we have at the moment,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in a press conference.
He added, “I decided to declare a health emergency with an international dimension” to confront this disease, explaining that the risk in the world is relatively moderate, with the exception of Europe, where it is considered high.
It is noteworthy that the unusual increase in cases of monkeypox was discovered in early May outside the countries of Central and West Africa, where the virus is usually endemic, and it has spread throughout the world and has been the epicenter of Europe.
Monkeypox, discovered in humans in the 1970s, is considered to be less dangerous and contagious than smallpox, which was eradicated in 1980.
