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The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that 94 cases of monkeypox had been confirmed as of last Saturday (21). More cases are expected to be identified as surveillance expands in countries where the disease has not yet been found.
According to g1, the organization also said about 28 suspected cases of the disease had been reported in 15 countries that are not endemic to the virus. The WHO says it will provide further guidance and recommendations in the coming days to slow the spread of smallpox.
“The available information suggests that humantohuman transmission occurs between people who are in close physical contact with symptomatic cases,” Reuters added.
Monkeypox is an infectious disease endemic to parts of West and Central Africa. Transmission occurs through close contact and is relatively easy to contain through measures such as isolation and hygiene.
“What appears to be happening now is that it has entered the population as a sexual form, as a genital form, and is spreading just like sexually transmitted infections, which has increased its transmission around the world,” said David Heymann, an official . by WHO and expert on infectious diseases.
According to Heymann, in an interview with the international agency Reuters, an international panel of experts met via video conference to analyze what had to be investigated and communicated to the public before the outbreak.
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