What do they have in common and what is the scope of the disease?

Amid the global alert for the monkeypox (mpox), the World Health Organization (WHO) He compared the disease to what it was like Covid-19 and analyzed what is the scope of the virus declared an international emergency.

His clevernessthe director for Europe of the health agency, said that the world You already know a lot about the monkeypox, hence It cannot be considered “the new Covid-19”. In this regard, he explained that scientists already know about the two types of viruses that cause the disease, so they know how to fight them.

Monkeypox is not the new Covid-19

At a press conference, Kluge said: “Mpox is not the new Covid. Whether it is mpox clade I, which caused the current epidemic in central and eastern Africa, or mpox clade II, which caused the 2022 epidemic.”

“We already know a lot about clade II. We still have much to learn about clade I.”he said. And he stressed: “We know how to fight mpox“.

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Monkeypox is transmitted from animals to humans and from person to person through skin-to-skin physical contact.

WHO declares monkeypox an international emergency

Given the increase in cases of mpox in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Ugandathe WHO decided to decree a international public health emergency on August 14, the highest alert level.

The virus was discovered in 1958 in Denmark, in monkeys bred for research. In 1970, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it was first detected in a human with the spread of a subtype clade I, which was generally spread through contact with animals.

According to Catherine Smallwood, from the European office of the WHO, still No animal-to-human transmission of clade Ib was detected. “It appears to be a strain of the virus that is circulating exclusively within the human population” and “is likely to be transmitted more efficiently between humans.”

A WHO spokesperson in Geneva, Tarik Jasarevicreferred to the type of monkeypox virus and said: “We know that clade I is more dangerous than clade II,” although he assured that specialists are trying to find out if there is a real difference in terms of severity between clade Ia and clade Ib.