WHO reports 780 cases in 27 non-endemic countries, including Portugal — DNOTICIAS.PT
A total of 780 laboratory-confirmed cases of monkeypox (monkeypox) have been reported in 27 non-endemic countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced today, reiterating that the global risk is moderate.
A number that the organization admits is “probably estimated”, due to limited epidemiological studies, since “it is very likely that cases and that other countries indicate, in the future, greater spread of the virus”.
The non-endemic countries that accounted for 7 more cases were the United Kingdom (2), Spain (156), Portugal (138), Canada (58) and Germany (57).
Outside Europe and North America, records were also recorded – only one in each country – in Argentina, Australia, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates.
“Although the current situation for human health and for the public at risk for general low, the risk of knowing the health cannot become the opportunity to establish itself in countries as a human virus”, reads the WHO health in an update. of your disease assessment.
“WHO assesses the risk globally as moderate, as this is the first time that many smallpox cases and clusters of cases have been recorded simultaneously in endemic and non-endemic monkeys,” he said.
According to the United Nations universe, no deaths were reported in non-endemic countries, contrary to what happened in endemic countries: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo-Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Gabon, Costa Ivory and Ghana, where the disease has only been identified in animals. In the first seven countries, 66 deaths were reported in the first five months of 2022.
Monkeypox, the family of the virus that causes smallpox, is from a person with ventilation, fluids per person close contact, respiratory droplets, contaminated materials.
The incubation time is usually seven to 14 days, and the disease, popularly known as monkeypox, lasts, on average, two to four weeks.
The disease is endemic in West and Central Africa and less dangerous than smallpox.
The Directorate-General for Health to people who have symptoms of ulcers, and palpable health recommendations, accompanied by fever, chills, headaches, health aches and fatigue, medical headaches.