Monkeypox is now a global health emergency, the World Health Organization declares

The rapid spread and severity of monkeypox was the subject of a global health emergency declared by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Reports indicate that there are more than 16,000 reported cases of the disease in 75 countries. According to the WHO, five deaths were attributed to this exotic disease.

According to WHO, 2,400 monkeypox cases have been reported in the USA.

According to the CDC, monkeypox is not an entirely new disease. WHO website. It was first detected in a monkey, in 1958. In 1970, a small child from the Democratic Republic of the Congo was infected with it.

“What’s different now is that we’re seeing cases in other countries that normally don’t have monkeypox,”Official declaration by the WHO. “But in fact, we’ve never seen an outbreak like this before.”

Monkeypox is a painful, uncomfortable, itchy rash that can lead to rashes. It is an endemic disease in Africa and US officials worry that it will become more widespread. Monkeypox can be treated with vaccines, but they aren’t widely available or easily accessible.

“We have an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly, through new modes of transmission, about which we understand too little,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a statement.

“For the moment this is an outbreak that is concentrated among men who have sex with men, especially those with multiple sexual partners,”He added. “That means that this is an outbreak that can be stopped with the right strategies in the right groups.”

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