Rosamund Lewis, head of the Smallpox Secretariat for the WHO Emergency Program, said today, Wednesday, July 6, that the World Health Organization is aware of cases of monkeypox in children.
“There are reports of cases of children being injured, so far, nearly a third of them are children under the age of ten and half of them are children under the age of five,” Lewis said in a press briefing.
Lewis explained that transmission of monkeypox among patients between the ages of 18 and 19 is still open, but it is possible for younger children to become infected through household exposure.
The organization said that recently more than 6,000 cases of monkeypox have been identified in 58 countries around the world, while the ways of spreading the infection are not completely clear to specialists.
The World Health Organization rejected the monkeypox virus as a health emergency because it did not spread to all countries significantly, and it does not spread easily through breathing like the Corona virus.