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The World Health Organization (WHO) has not been raised to the maximum level of international health emergencies and there is currently an outbreak of the monkey virus that has affected more than 5 countries and has reported 3000 cases of contagion. However, we recommend increasing vigilance because the lockdown is "ever-evolving."
According to the conclusions of the WHO Emergency Committee, meeting since last Thursday in Geneva, the infection is not, at this time, a global health hazard, although scientists are concerned about the "scale and speed of the current epidemic. ”. The precise data on it are yet to be determined.
Committee members report that many aspects of the current outbreak are unusual, such as the appearance of cases in countries where monkey virus circulation had previously been documented.
Also, because the majority of patients are men who have sex with young people who have not been vaccinated against smallpox.
The smallpox vaccine also protects against monkeypox. However, the last case of the virus was detected in Africa in 1977, and as early as 1980, the WHO declared that the virus had been completely destroyed in the world, the first time that an infectious infection had been declared eliminated from the planet.
The WHO Emergency Committee recommends not lowering our guard and continuing to monitor the evolution of infections. Also, carry out coordinated surveillance actions, at the international level, to identify cases, isolate them and give them the appropriate treatment in order to try to control the spread of this virus.
According to WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the monkeypox virus has been circulating on the African continent for decades, but research, surveillance and investment have been neglected. "This situation must change for both monkeypox and other neglected diseases that exist in poor countries."
"What makes this fermentation especially worrying is its rapid and continuous spread and in new countries and regions, which increases the risk of subsequent sustained transmission among the most vulnerable populations such as immunosuppressed people, pregnant women and children," Tedros added.
