The monkeypox outbreak is “unlikely” to become a pandemic like the one in COVID-19 Despite the rapid expansion over the past month, Monday said the World Health Organisation (WHO).
“We do not believe that this outbreak will lead to the start of another pandemic because it is a known virus, we have the resources to control it and our experience tells us that it is not as easily transmitted in humans as it is in animals.” said smallpox WHO expert Rosamund Lewis.
For now, since United Kingdom reported the first confirmed case of monkeypox on May 7, the WHO has received reports of a total of 257 laboratory-confirmed cases and about 120 suspects in 23 countries.
In Spain 98 cases have been confirmed so far, the health ministry said on Friday.
Source: El heraldo
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