Has monkeypox reached Arab countries?

Written By رنا السيلاوي on 2022/05/24

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

Weather of Arabia - The World Health Organization announced the registration of more than 56 thousand confirmed cases of monkeypox in more than 104 countries around the world (until September 8, 2022), since the first case was reported on May 7, 2022, outside the countries in which it is spread Usually disease.

 

As for the spread of the disease in Arab countries:

 

More: After the "rare" outbreak of the disease in many countries, what do we know about monkeypox?

 

For its part, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (European Health Agency), said that the risk of spreading the rare monkeypox in the population at large is "very low" but high in certain groups.

 

We should expect to see more in the coming days, but we have the tools to stop the virus, said Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO's responsible for emerging diseases.

 

It is noteworthy that the symptoms of monkeypox begin with a high fever and quickly develop into a rash, which is close to smallpox that was eradicated from the world forty years ago, but it is less dangerous than it, but what worries experts is the emergence of infections at the same time in many countries, not Especially in Europe, without this being linked to returning from African countries where the disease is endemic.

 

Read also: Experts reveal the cause of monkeypox outbreaks in Europe

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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