2023-08-16 09:56:11
The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed 1,020 new cases of monkeypox (mpox), which represents an increase of 1.2 percent of the total number of positives, and three deaths since its last report, dated March 14. July, and until August 9.
In the last two weeks, the WHO report notes that reported cases have increased in the Western Pacific, Europe and America regions. A new country, Trinidad and Tobago, has reported its first three cases of mpox.
The number of new weekly cases reported worldwide decreased 58.9 percent in the week of July 31 to August 6 (37 cases), compared to the week of July 24 to July 30 (90 cases). ).
The Western Pacific Region reported the majority (158/293; 77.2%) of the cases in the last three weeks (July 17 to August 8), due to the large increase in China. From June 28 to August 8, eight countries have recorded an increase in cases compared to the previous three weeks, with China (140 vs. 59; 140%) and Portugal (37 vs. 12; 201%) leading the way. .
As of August 9, 2023, new cases had been reported in the past 21 days, the maximum incubation period for the disease, in 15 of the 113 affected countries, five from each of the Americas, Europe, and Pacific regions. Western. Between July 27 and August 9, there have been a total of three deaths, all of them in the United States.
Countries with the Most Monkeypox
In any case, the WHO highlights that the transmission of the mpox virus remains “low” in most of the countries that report cases, and the main epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the cases remain “stable”.
Since 1 January 2022, a cumulative total of 89,308 mpox cases, 152 of them fatal, have been reported to WHO from 113 countries in the six WHO Regions.
The ten countries that have reported the highest cumulative number of cases worldwide are the United States (30,446), Brazil (10,967), Spain (7,560), France (4,150), Colombia (4,090), Mexico (4,045), Peru (3,812 ), the United Kingdom (3,771), Germany (3,694) and Canada (1,496). Together, these countries account for 82.9 percent of reported cases worldwide.
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