This comes as the World Health Organization in Europe expects that the number of infections will reach more than 27 thousand by the second of August in 88 countries, up from 17,800 cases in regarding 70 countries in the latest census.
Scientists from around the world told Archyde.com, “Preparing forecasts beyond this period is more complicated, adding that the spread of infection is expected to continue for several months and perhaps longer.”
For her part, Professor of Epidemiology at the University of California, Los Angeles and a member of the WHO expert panel on monkeypox, Anne Rimwin explained that, “We have to get ahead of that, it is clear that the opportunity to do so is diminishing.”
The committee met last week to determine whether the outbreak constitutes a global public health emergency, and a majority of members voted once morest the move.
However, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, declared a state of emergency anyway in an unprecedented move.
Health experts said: “The measures resulting from this announcement must be urgent, including increasing vaccinations, examinations, isolating the infected and monitoring contacts.”
It is noteworthy that the world has been ignoring the presence of the disease in parts of Africa to a large extent for decades, but cases of infection began to appear in May outside the countries where it is endemic.
Experts say that the current spread may lead to mutations in the virus that make it more effective in spreading between humans.
It is noteworthy that German scientists released a study yesterday, Tuesday, that found mutations in one of 47 cases of infection, and concluded that it may help the virus spread more easily.
