{"id":7366,"date":"2022-05-22T15:40:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T15:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/monkeypox-80-cases-confirmed-in-12-countries"},"modified":"2022-05-22T16:36:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T16:36:59","slug":"monkeypox-80-cases-confirmed-in-12-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/monkeypox-80-cases-confirmed-in-12-countries","title":{"rendered":"Monkeypox: 80 cases confirmed in 12 countries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Botswana. <\/strong><\/span>More than 80 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in at least 12 countries.<\/b><\/p>\n

The World Health Organization has said another 50 suspected cases are being investigated – without naming any countries – and warned that more cases are likely to be reported.<\/p>\n

Infections have been confirmed in nine European countries, as well as the US, Canada and Australia.<\/p>\n

Monkeypox is most common in remote parts of Central and West Africa.<\/p>\n

It is a rare viral infection which is usually mild and from which most people recover in a few weeks, according to the UK’s National Health Service.<\/p>\n

The virus does not spread easily between people and the risk to the wider public is said to be very low.<\/p>\n

There is no specific vaccine for monkeypox, but a smallpox jab offers 85% protection since the two viruses are quite similar.<\/p>\n

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So far, public health agencies in Europe have confirmed cases in the UK, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Sweden.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Friday, the WHO said that the recent outbreaks “are atypical, as they are occurring in non-endemic countries”.<\/p>\n

It said it was “working with the affected countries and others to expand disease surveillance to find and support people who may be affected”.<\/p>\n

It is not yet clear why this unusual outbreak is happening now.<\/p>\n

One possibility is that the virus has changed in some way, although currently there is little evidence to suggest this is a new variant.<\/p>\n

Another explanation is that the virus has found itself in the right place at the right time to thrive.<\/p>\n

Monkeypox may also spread more easily than it did in the past, when the smallpox vaccine was widely used.<\/p>\n

WHO’s Europe regional director Hans Kluge warned that “as we enter the summer season… with mass gatherings, festivals and parties, I am concerned that transmission could accelerate”.<\/p>\n

He added that all but one of the recent cases had no relevant travel history to areas where monkeypox was endemic.<\/p>\n

The first case of the disease in the UK was reported on 7 May. The patient had recently travelled to Nigeria, where they are believed to have caught the virus before travelling to England, the UK Health Security Agency said.<\/p>\n

There are now 20 confirmed cases in the UK, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said on Friday.<\/p>\n

Authorities in the UK said they had bought stocks of the smallpox vaccine and started offering it to those with “higher levels of exposure” to monkeypox.<\/p>\n

Spanish health authorities have also reportedly purchased thousands of smallpox jabs to deal with the outbreak, according to Spanish newspaper El Pa\u00eds.<\/p>\n

Australia’s first case was detected in a man who fell ill after travelling to the UK, the Victorian Department of Health said.<\/p>\n

In North America, health authorities in the US state of Massachusetts confirmed that a man has been infected after recently travelling to Canada. He was in “good condition” and “poses no risk to the public”, officials said.<\/p>\n

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