The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom, said on Saturday (25) that the current outbreak of monkeypox is not an international public health emergency, but that the situation is worrying. In the world, there are already more than 3,000 cases of the disease, 17 of them in Brazil.
According to the WHO director, what makes the current smallpox outbreak “especially concerning” is the rapid and continuous spread to new countries and regions and the risk of continuous and sustained transmission in vulnerable populations, including people with immunological problems, pregnant women and children.
“This is clearly an evolving health threat that my colleagues and I at the WHO Secretariat are following closely. It requires our collective attention and coordinated action now to stop the spread of monkeypox virus using public health measures, including surveillance, contact tracing, patient isolation and care, and ensuring that health tools such as vaccines and treatments are in place. available to populations at risk and shared fairly,” he said.
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