Smallpox Monkeys, WHO: it is not a health emergency

For the World Health Organization, monkeypox cannot yet be considered a health emergency. This was established by the Emergency Committee of the organization, which however stressed that “the control of the further spread” of this epidemic “requires intense response efforts”, suggesting “careful monitoring and re-examination in a few weeks, when they will be available. additional information, to determine if significant changes have occurred that might warrant a reconsideration “of this opinion. The Committee acknowledged that “monkeypox is endemic in parts of Africa and that the response to this outbreak must act as a catalyst to increase efforts to combat” the risk of long-term spread. WHO also admits that “many aspects of the current outbreak in multiple countries are unusual, such as the occurrence of cases in countries where the circulation of the monkeypox virus had not previously been documented and the fact that the vast majority of cases it is observed among men who have sexual relations with men, of young age, not previously immunized against smallpox “.