دهها مورد جدید از آبله میمون در آفریقا و خارج از آن کشف شد
سازمان جهانی بهداشت (WHO) روز یکشنبه اعلام کرد که آبله میمون یک وضعیت اضطراری بهداشت عمومی است و برای دومین بار از سال ۲۰۲۲، هشدارهایی در مورد پتانسیل آن برای افزایش انتقال جهانی ایجاد شده است.
در حال حاضر ۱۶ کشور در آفریقا تحت تأثیر این بیماری قرار دارند. سازمان جهانی بهداشت می‌گوید که ویروس آبله میمون قابل انتقال به انسان از طریق تماس با فرد آلوده است و اگر هیچ حالتی نداشته باشد، اما می‌تواند با نزدیКИ مبتلا به ویروس با سوراخ و یا زخم صورت همچونampire سرایت کند.
Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus به رسانه‌ها گفته است که状况 بیماری مانند سابق نیست که سازمان جهانی بهداشت در سال 2022 پیش‌بینی کرده بود.
وی افزود که به جاهای رسیده شده پوکر آبله مینون ابا براین شد. ویروس جدید به طریق تازه‌ای منتقل می‌شود و مهم نیست که کسی داخل مربوطه یا خارجRelated ندارد.
This year, at least 15,664 cases and 548 deaths have been reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the country most affected by the disease.
According to the WHO, the current outbreak is spreading through a new and more dangerous variant of the virus, Clade 1b, which has a mortality rate of 3.6%.
In December 2022, the Republic of the Congo declared a national outbreak of mpox and a incident management system was set up in February 2023 based on the increasing number of cases reported.
The current situation is that all provinces in the country are affected, including several border provinces with neighboring countries such as Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda, where cases have also been reported.
At least 16 countries have been affected by the disease, according to the African Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.
The WHO has increased its support for affected countries by deploying more experts, including epidemiologists and social scientists, and providing initial funding to speed up response actions to the outbreak.
The organization has also initiated the process of listing the use of emergency mpox vaccines, which will accelerate access to vaccines for low-income countries that have not yet obtained national regulatory approval.
On Thursday, Sweden confirmed that it has identified the first case of the new mpox variant, which marks the first appearance of Clade 1b outside of the African continent.
The Swedish Public Health Agency noted that unlike the previous strain, which was mainly spread through sexual contact, Clade 1 is currently mainly spread through household contacts and often affects children.
According to the WHO, other imported mpox cases are likely to be identified in Europe soon.
Monkeypox, which was first identified in laboratory monkeys in 1958, is believed to be transmitted from wild animals such as rodents to people or from person to person.
According to the WHO, the native mpox disease is usually geographically limited to West and Central Africa. The identification of confirmed and suspected virus cases without a history of travel to a native area in several non-expected countries is unusual.