WHO: Monkeypox is not a global health emergency

Monkeypox is a deeply worrying and evolving threat but does not constitute a “public health emergency of international concern” at this stage, the WHO director-general said on 25 June. Monkeypox is a viral zoonosis caused by monkeypox virus, which belongs to orpoxvirus. Initial symptoms include high fever, swollen lymph nodes, and a blister-like rash.

So far this year, there have been more than 1,400 suspected cases of monkeypox and 66 deaths in Africa. According to collect data of infectious diseases of global health organizations, since the beginning of May, monkeypox cases in west and central Africa countries outside, most of the new cases occurred in Western Europe, before that, in the western hemisphere is one of the biggest outbreaks, in 2003, 47 cases of infection in the United States, the confirmed cases have been domesticated prairie dogs infected.

According to the latest data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 25 states have reported confirmed cases of monkeypox so far. In recent days, the US government has stepped up monkeypox testing efforts, including distributing monkeypox test samples to commercial LABS, in response to the rising number of cases.
But the outbreak has not ended, and m& # 111nkeypox continues to spread rapidly around the world, with 4,124 confirmed cases and one death now reported to WHO in more than 50 countries. Taiwan also reported its first case of monkeypox on June 24.

On Thursday (23 June), the World Health Organization held an emergency meeting to discuss whether to issue the who’s strongest alert about the outbreak. The committee considering the issue is made up of 16 scientists and public health experts and is chaired by Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele, former director of who’s Department of Vaccines and Immunisation.
While acknowledging the emergency nature of the incident and the need for a robust response to contain the further spread of the outbreak, the committee decided by consensus to advise Tedros that at this stage the outbreak is not a pheic.

The commission also discusses the observed number of cases of some countries tend to be stable or potential decline, and difficulty because of anonymous access track contact, they suggest that countries improve the diagnosis and risk communication, and said, who is ready to according to the evolution of the epidemic situation in the next few days and a few weeks to meet again.

In addition, those at the meeting were concerned that potential stigmatization of affected groups could hamper response efforts, given that many aspects of the m& # 111nkeypox outbreak are unusual. The WHO meeting report also showed that “the vast majority of cases occur among young, sexually active males,” mainly in “dense social and sexual networks” in urban areas.