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The World Health Organization today declared an ultra-deadly strain of monkeypoxa global public health emergency, On Tuesday, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention declared a public health emergency of continental concern for the first time ever, and on Wednesday, a WHO-led panel meets to decide if it represents a global threat…
Officials said an outbreak of the virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its neighboring countries posed ‘international concern’ – the WHO’s highest level of alert, The hope is to speed up research and roll out vaccines to contain the virus, which is more infectious and several times deadlier than the one that caused the global outbreak in 2022.
No cases of the new strain have been reported in the US or the UK yet, but the American CDC is urging doctors to be extra vigilant for symptoms like skin rashes and lesions, Experts have also warned that the disease, which spreads primarily through sex in gay and bisexual men, feels ‘very similar’ to the beginning of the AIDS crisis due to how it circulates.
Director-General of the WHO, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said Wednesday: ‘It’s clear that a coordinated international response is essential to stop these outbreaks and save lives.’ The DRC is home to a densely packed population that frequently travels and moves across borders, raising the risk the new mpox strain, which is spread through physical contact, would eventually spread beyond the country.
