The United States Government is prepared to declare a state of health emergency due to the outbreak of monkeypox, which has already infected more than 6,600 Americans in this country, with the capital in the lead in number of infections.
Sources from the US federal administration have decided that the White House has distributed 1,1 million vacuum doses and has increased diagnoses to 80.000 weekly tests.
With this new decision from the White House, federal funds and other medical resources will be mobilized to combat the virus, which presented a picture of fever, body aches, fatigue and rashes on parts of the body.
Above all, the outbreak has affected men who have homosexual relationships, although not exclusively. Health authorities stress that the virus can infect anyone, as it spreads through prolonged and close skin-to-skin contact, as well as sharing bedding, towels and clothing.
As in Spain, in the US the vaccine for monkeypox is scarce, and queues have been generated at medical centers in large cities such as Washington, New York and San Francisco to request it.
The clinics in these cities have denounced that they have not received sufficient doses of the vaccine, which is applied with two injections, to cover the demand, and in many cases they have had to do without the second injection to guarantee the supply of the first ones.
The announcement comes three days after the Biden administration named a team from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as coordinators to combat the outbreak.
Last week, the World Health Organization called the monkey virus the hottest thing in public health, with cases in more than 70 countries. A global emergency is at the WHO's highest alert level, but the designation doesn't necessarily mean an enclosed sea is especially transmissible or lethal, like the coronavirus.
