WHO will assess whether monkeypox represents an “international public health emergency”

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced Tuesday that it will convene a meeting of its emergency committee on June 23 to assess whether the monkey pox represents a “public health emergency of international scope”.

The current proliferation of cases is “unusual and worrying”, declared its director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a press conference, to justify this future meeting.

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The monkey poxwhich is not usually fatal, may cause fever, headaches, muscle or back aches, swollen lymph nodes, chills, and fatigue.

Rashes (on the face, palms of the hands, soles of the feet), lesions, pustules, and finally scabs then appear. Your symptoms usually go away within two to three weeks.

According to WHOAs of June 8, the number of confirmed cases of the disease was 1,300 in the world in non-endemic countries.

Monkeypox is endemic in 11 countries in West Africa and Central Africa.

Source: Elcomercio

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