The World Health Organization has revealed that the unelected United Nations agency is considering declaring a global health emergency due to an outbreak of monkeypox in Africa.
The WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus issued the warning about monkeypox, also known as mpox, in a post on X.
“But more funding and support for a comprehensive response are needed,” Tedros wrote on Sunday.
“I am considering convening an International Health Regulations emergency committee to advise me on whether the outbreak of mpox should be declared a public health emergency of international concern.”
By Tuesday, it was still unclear when the WHO would declare the emergency or issue any warnings about the virus.
A statement from Tedros published by the journal Science asserted:
“This virus can and must be contained with intensified public health measures including surveillance, community engagement, treatment and targeted deployment of vaccines for those at higher risk of infection.”
“A further scaling up of the mpox response underway in affected countries is urgently needed amid the expanding outbreak,” his statement said.
Tedros said he is demanding “more funding for a comprehensive response” from governments of sovereign nations.
He argues that the response must include plans for diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines.
A public health emergency of international concern is the strongest designation for an outbreak.
Notably, such a declaration was made for COVID-19 during the early onset of the pandemic in 2020.
Later, WHO made the designation for a monkeypox outbreak that lasted from 2022 to 2023.
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden’s administration declared an emergency over the virus.
During that outbreak, which impacted Europe and the United States, officials say monkeypox primarily spread via sexual contact between men.
The latest announcement was made as the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a report last week that monkeypox has now been detected in 10 African countries this year.
Those nations include Congo, which has more than 96 percent of all cases and deaths.
Officials said nearly 70 percent of cases in Congo are affecting children younger than 15, who also account for 85 percent of deaths
There have been an estimated 14,250 cases so far this year, nearly as many as all of last year, the Africa CDC said.
Compared to the first seven months of 2023, the Africa CDC said cases are up 160 percent and deaths are up 19 percent, to 456.
Burundi and Rwanda both reported the virus for the first time this week, while new outbreaks were recently reported in the Central African Republic and Kenya.
“We are very concerned about the cases of monkeypox, which is ravaging (the capital region),” the Central African Republic’s public health minister, Pierre Somse, said on Monday.
According to the U.S. CDC website, signs and symptoms of monkeypox include a rash that might be located on the feet, hands, face, chest, and mouth, or near the genitals.
The rash can form scabs and initially look like blisters or pimples, which may be itchy or painful.
Other symptoms include fever, swollen lymph nodes, chills, aches, exhaustion, and respiratory symptoms such as a cough, nasal congestion, or sore throat, according to the health agency.
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