After the corona pandemic, the hugely growing virus called monkeypox has been reported to be spread since first reported in the U.K on May 7, confirming monkeypox , almost 400 suspected as well as confirmed cases have been noted to the World Health Organization (WHO).
On Monday, the WHO said, it was not to be concerned presently in the expanse of monkeypox beyond the African countries where it is typically found could prompt an international pandemic.
The UN health agency has expressed its concern at this “unusual situation”, but again said Monday, that there is nothing to panic over the virus, which spreads through close contact and usually does not cause serious disease.
While soliciting an epidemiological briefing on whether the virus will endemic in a range of west and central African nations, and might arouse another pandemic, WHO’s top monkeypox expert Rosamund Lewis acknowledged that “we don’t know.”
But “we don’t think so,” she said. “At the moment, we are not concerned about a global pandemic.”
The precautions measurement should be aware before it spread like wildfire and stopped before it gets outbreak larger, learning from the previous pandemic. “It is still possible to stop this outbreak before it gets larger,” she told an online public forum.
With apprehensive, “We are concerned that it will replace smallpox and we really don’t want that to happen,” said Lewis, who also heads WHO’s smallpox secretariat.
The disease is spread from person to person through direct contact, and if we followed the protocol it can be avoided spreading.
“If we all react quickly, and we all work together, we will be able to stop this … before it reaches more vulnerable people,” she said.
WHO makes it clear in the recent statement by experts that this disease has nothing to do with LGTBQ community.
“This is not a gay disease,” Andy Seale of WHO’s sexually transmitted infections programme told the public forum, stressing that the virus could spread among any group of people in crowded spaces with close skin-to-skin contact.
