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LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says nearly 200
cases of monkeypox have been reported in more than 20 countries
not usually known to have outbreaks of the unusual disease, but
described the epidemic as “containable” and proposed creating a
stockpile to equitably share the limited vaccines and drugs
available worldwide.
During a public briefing on Friday, the U.N. health agency said
there are still many unanswered questions about what triggered
the unprecedented outbreak of monkeypox outside of Africa, but
there is no evidence that any genetic changes in the virus are
responsible.
“The first sequencing of the virus shows that the strain is not
different from the strains we can find in endemic countries and
(this outbreak) is probably due more to a change in human
behaviour,” said Dr. Sylvie Briand, WHO’s director of pandemic
and epidemic diseases.
Earlier this week, a top adviser to WHO said the outbreak in
Europe, U.S., Israel, Australia and beyond was likely linked to
sex at two recent raves in Spain and Belgium. That marks a
significant departure from the disease’s typical pattern of
spread in central and western Africa, where people are mainly
infected by animals like wild rodents and primates, and
outbreaks haven’t spilled across borders.
Although WHO said nearly 200 monkeypox cases have been reported,
that seemed a likely undercount. On Friday, Spanish authorities
said the number of cases there had risen to 98, including one
woman, whose infection is “directly related” to a chain of
transmission that had been previously limited to men, according
to officials in the region of Madrid.
U.K. officials added 16 more cases to their monkeypox tally,
making Britain’s total 106, while Portugal said its caseload
jumped to 74 cases. And authorities in Argentina on Friday
reported a monkeypox case in a man from Buenos Aires, marking
Latin America’s first infection. Officials said the man had
traveled recently to Spain and now had symptoms consistent with
monkeypox, including lesions and a fever.
Doctors in Britain, Spain, Portugal, Canada, the U.S. and
elsewhere have noted that the majority of infections to date
have been in gay and bisexual men, or men who have sex with men.
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