WHO: Europe has turned into a monkeypox outbreak center

The European Office of the World Health Organization announced that Europe has turned into a center for the spread of monkeypox, expressing concern about the dangers of endemicity of the disease there.

The British newspaper “Independent” quoted Hans Kluge, director of the office, as saying: “Europe remains the center of this wave, which is expanding, as 25 countries have reported more than 1,500 cases, or 85 percent of the global total.

Kluge warned that the scale of the epidemic poses a real danger, the longer the virus circulated, the wider its reach would be, and the stronger the disease’s foothold will get in non-endemic countries.

Kluge called on the member states of the World Health Organization to take urgent measures to control the monkeypox epidemic, indicating that the virus was endemic in West and Central Africa for years and the world did not take this virus into account, but now it is spreading rapidly in Europe and other continents.

Inas Abdulkareem