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Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>The World Health Organization on Saturday declared the monkeypox outbreak, which has affected nearly 16,000 people in 72 countries, to be a global health emergency — the highest alarm it can sound.<\/b><\/p>\n

“I have decided that the global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference.<\/p>\n

He said a committee of experts who met on Thursday was unable to reach a consensus, so it fell on him to decide whether to trigger the highest alert possible.<\/p>\n

“WHO’s assessment is that the risk of monkeypox is moderate globally and in all regions, except in the European region where we assess the risk as high,” he added.<\/p>\n

Monkeypox has affected over 15,800 people in 72 countries, according to a tally by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published on July 20.<\/p>\n

A surge in monkeypox infections has been reported since early May outside the West and Central African countries where the disease has long been endemic.<\/p>\n

On June 23, the WHO convened an emergency committee (EC) of experts to decide if monkeypox constitutes a so-called Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) — the UN health agency’s highest alert level.<\/p>\n

But a majority advised Tedros that the situation, at that point, had not met the threshold.<\/p>\n

The second meeting was called on Thursday with case numbers rising further, where Tedros said he was worried.<\/p>\n

“I need your advice in assessing the immediate and mid-term public health implications,” Tedros told the meeting, which lasted more than six hours.<\/p>\n

A US health expert sounded a grim warning late on Friday.<\/p>\n

“Since the last #monkeypox EC just weeks ago, we’ve seen an exponential rise in cases. It’s inevitable that cases will dramatically rise in the coming weeks & months. That’s why @DrTedros must sound the global alarm,” Lawrence Gostin, the director of the WHO Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law, said on Twitter.<\/p>\n

“A failure to act will have grave consequences for global health.”<\/p>\n

Warning against discrimination<\/b><\/p>\n

A viral infection resembling smallpox and first detected in humans in 1970, monkeypox is less dangerous and contagious than smallpox, which was eradicated in 1980.<\/p>\n

Ninety-five percent of cases have been transmitted through sexual activity, according to a study of 528 people in 16 countries published in the New England Journal of Medicine — the largest research to date.<\/p>\n

Overall, 98 percent of infected people were gay or bisexual men, and around a third were known to have visited sex-on-site venues such as sex parties or saunas within the previous month.<\/p>\n

“This transmission pattern represents both an opportunity to implement targeted public health interventions, and a challenge because in some countries, the communities affected face life-threatening discrimination,” Tedros said earlier, citing concern that stigma and scapegoating could make the outbreak harder to track.<\/p>\n

The European Union’s drug watchdog on Friday recommended for approval the use of Imvanex, a smallpox vaccine, to treat monkeypox.<\/p>\n

Imvanex, developed by Danish drugmaker Bavarian Nordic, has been approved in the EU since 2013 for the prevention of smallpox.<\/p>\n

It was also considered a potential vaccine for monkeypox because of the similarity between the monkeypox virus and the smallpox virus.<\/p>\n

The first symptoms of monkeypox are fever, headaches, muscle pain and back pain during the course of five days.<\/p>\n

Rashes subsequently appear on the face, the palms of hands and soles of feet, followed by lesions, spots and finally scabs.<\/p>\n

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