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Amid four deaths due to <keyword id="7616951" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="monkeypox" source="Orion">monkeypox</keyword> outside <keyword id="12925" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="africa" source="Orion">Africa</keyword>, including <keyword id="3658" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="india" source="Orion">India</keyword>, the <keyword id="43588" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="world-health-organization" source="Orion">World Health Organization</keyword> (WHO) has said that the infectious disease is likely to lead to more fatalities. "With the continued spread of monkeypox, we will expect to see more deaths," <keyword id="9793147" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="catherine-smallwood" source="Orion">Catherine Smallwood</keyword>, Senior Emergency Officer at <keyword id="9305940" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="who-europe" source="Orion">WHO Europe</keyword>, said in a statement. <keyword id="300073" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="smallwood" source="Orion">Smallwood</keyword> emphasised that the goal needs to be "interrupting transmission quickly and stopping this outbreak". However, Smallwood stressed that in most cases the disease heals itself without the need for treatment. The latest monkeypox outbreak which was first reported in May, has since spread to 78 countries with more than 18,000 cases, according to the WHO's last update on July 28. At the time, five monkeypox-related deaths were reported from Africa. Last week, two deaths were reported from Spain and one each from <keyword id="6355226" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="brazil" source="Orion">Brazil</keyword> and India. A 22-year-old youth, from <keyword id="28504" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="kerala" source="Orion">Kerala</keyword> died on Saturday reportedly due to monkeypox. According to media reports, he returned to the state on July 21 from the <keyword id="6358356" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="uae" source="Orion">UAE</keyword> and was admitted to a private hospital on July 27 after developing encephalitis and fever. His lymph nodes were also swollen. India has so far reported four confirmed monkeypox cases, three of them in Kerala, and one in Delhi. Meanwhile, the patient who had the first reported case, also from Kerala, was discharged from hospital on Saturday. "Time for us all to act," Smallwood said earlier on Twitter, adding that people "who are most likely to be exposed to #monkeypox need to act to reduce their exposures". She also stressed the need to make "testing, healthcare &amp; vaccination easy &amp; quick". "Cannot let #Covid19 fatigue hold us back!" SEE ALSO : <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/gadgets/news/garmin-fenix-7-solar-review-a-pricey-swiss-army-knife-of-fitness-smartwatches/articleshow/93266370.cms">Garmin Fenix 7 Solar review – a pricey Swiss army knife of fitness smartwatches</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/why-is-battlegrounds-mobile-banned-in-india/articleshow/93265968.cms">BGMI ban in India – why was the game banned, is the game still working, and everything you need to know</a>

Monkeypox can heal itself but will cause more deaths: WHO

<keyword id="7616951" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="monkeypox" source="Orion">Monkeypox</keyword> infections may not be limited among men who have sex with men, as seen currently, but may spread beyond the community, a <keyword id="43588" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="world-health-organization" source="Orion">World Health Organization</keyword> (WHO) official has warned. Men who have sex with men are currently deemed at highest risk of infection. A study in the <keyword id="401051" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="new-england-journal-of-medicine" source="Orion">New England Journal of Medicine</keyword> last week, which looked at infections across 16 countries between April and June, found that 98 per cent of cases were in gay or bisexual men. According to Dr. <keyword id="9793147" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="catherine-smallwood" source="Orion">Catherine Smallwood</keyword>, senior emergency officer at the WHO, there is little evidence to suggest that the disease will remain confined to gay and bisexual communities, <keyword id="5601" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="nbc" source="Orion">NBC</keyword> reported. More severe cases could become apparent if the virus spreads to more immunologically vulnerable groups like young children, pregnant women and the immunocompromised, <keyword id="300073" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="smallwood" source="Orion">Smallwood</keyword> was quoted as saying. She cautioned against complacency in the rapidly escalating monkeypox outbreak, which has so far caused more than 16,000 cases in about 75 countries and five deaths in Africa. "At the moment, cases continue to be reported among men who have sex with men for the most part, but we should not expect that to remain as such," Smallwood said. "If it does spread to other groups, particularly to people who are vulnerable to severe monkeypox disease, which we know there are certain groups that are more prone to severe illness, then we might see increased public health impact," she added. It is not uncommon for a virus outbreak to start in one particular group or setting before spreading more widely in the general population, Smallwood said, noting that health authorities could take cues from the early findings. "This really might be the canary in the mine that's alerting us to a new disease threat that could spread to other groups," she continued. While several countries have already stepped up vaccination programmes for people most at risk, the vaccines are designed primarily for treating smallpox, said Smallwood adding more information is needed to determine their efficacy as the monkeypox virus continues to spread. "We don't have full information on how effective and how efficacious these vaccines are against monkeypox," she said. The WHO has activated its highest alert level for the escalating outbreak, declaring the virus a public health emergency of international concern. This would now draw more attention to the outbreak and, as a consequence, research on vaccines and other modes of treatment, Smallwood said. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/health/news/indian-company-rolls-out-rt-pcr-test-kit-for-monkeypox/articleshow/93130578.cms">Indian company rolls out RT PCR test kit for Monkeypox</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/enterprise/news/artificial-intelligence-has-the-potential-to-change-healthcare/articleshow/93130054.cms">‘Artificial intelligence has the potential to change healthcare’</a>

Monkeypox may not be limited to gay, bisexual men, can spread to others: WHO

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The White House's top COVID-19 advisor said that the general population's risk of <keyword id="13900629" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="monkeypox" source="Orion">monkeypox</keyword> is minimal.</li><li>"The risk to the broader population is very small," Jha said on "Fox <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">News</keyword> Sunday."</li></ul>The White House's top COVID-19 advisor said that the risk of catching monkeypox among the general population is minimal, a day after the World <keyword id="11894571" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="health" source="Orion">Health</keyword> Organization declared the growing virus outbreak a <a href="https://www.insider.com/world-health-organization-monkeypox-outbreak-global-emergency-2022-7">global public health emergency</a>. "The risk to the broader population is very small," White House COVID-19 response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said of the outbreak <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/health/white-house-covid-adviser-addresses-current-monkeypox-threat-level">during an interview on "Fox News Sunday."</a>Jha added, "We're going to continue to work on making sure we contain it in the populations where it is being transmitted and preventing it from spreading to others as well."The current monkeypox outbreak has largely affected gay and bisexual men, but the WHO has warned that the virus could spread even further."At the moment, cases continue to be reported among men who have sex with men for the most part, but we should not expect that to remain as such," Dr. Catherine Smallwood, senior emergency officer at the WHO, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/25/who-monkeypox-could-spread-well-beyond-men-gay-bisexual-communities.html">told CNBC's "Street Signs Europe"</a> on Monday. Smallwood continued, "This really might be the canary in the mine that's alerting to us a new disease threat that could spread to other groups." Disease experts have noted that <a href="https://www.insider.com/monkeypox-gay-bisexual-men-affected-but-who-warns-stigma-2022-5">anyone can be at risk of catching the virus</a>, which typically spreads from person to person through extremely close contact. A trio of virologists <a href="https://speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2022/05/19/monkeypox-is-not-a-gay-disease/?fbclid=IwAR2UtG7y-tW1yY-wanNG3e0yd7jTPwZSGZsJM3WmEkUOdjx9WzTykptFJ-0">cautioned last week</a> against labeling monkeypox as a "gay disease."According to the latest data by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, just over 2,800 monkeypox cases have been confirmed across the country — and Jha noted that no Americans have died of the virus as a result of the current outbreak. "We have substantially ramped up testing, we have substantially ramped up vaccinations," said Jha, who explained, "We got to keep doing more, by the way. We're not done on that effort. We're going to do more of that in the days and weeks ahead."Monkeypox can <a href="https://www.insider.com/monkeypox-symptoms-cases-europe-uk-spain-portugal-2022-5">cause flu-like symptoms</a>, including fever and muscle aches, and can prompt puss-filled boils that cover the body.The World Health Organization declared on Saturday that the global monkeypox outbreak "represents a public health emergency of international concern."Jha said he was "supportive" of the determination and believes it was the "right call," as cases continue to climb across the globe. More than 16,800 cases of monkeypox have been reported in 74 countries around the world, according to <keyword id="11917544" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="cdc" source="Orion">CDC</keyword> data. Jha said during the interview on "Fox News Sunday" that no decision has yet been made on whether the US will declare a public health emergency for monkeypox. "We obviously will continue to assess that on an ongoing basis," he said.

White House top COVID advisor says monkeypox risk is 'very small,' a day after the WHO declared the virus a global emergency

Copenhagen, <keyword id="8763838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="covid-19">Covid-19</keyword> <keyword id="112799" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="variants">variants</keyword> discovered in several countries across the world, bear the potential to have a devastating impact on health facilities under stress, the <keyword id="43588" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="World-Health-Organization">World Health Organization</keyword> (WHO) <keyword id="321641" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Regional-Office">Regional Office</keyword> for <keyword id="28249" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="europe">Europe</keyword> has warned. "Variants are a common phenomenon and are not in themselves dangerous, but they can be if they change the behaviour of the virus; therefore, we need to monitor these developments closely," quotedted Richard Pebody, who leads the epidemiology and <keyword id="10715145" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="surveillance-response">surveillance response</keyword> on Covid-19 in WHO/Europe, said in a statement issued here on Friday. The warning came as the highly transmissible variant SARS-CoV-2 VOC 202012/01 originally found in Britian, has spreads to 30 countries in the European Region, with 22,503 cases reported as of January 22. According to the statement, many of the 30 countries project that the VOC 202012/01 might become dominant in the coming weeks, outnumbering non-variant cases of the coronavirus. "Higher transmissibility does not mean a variant transmits in a different way, rather the variant just spreads better... If this causes our health-care systems to become overwhelmed and less able to cope, more people could be at risk of dying from the virus," said Catherine Smallwood, who leads the Covid-19 response team at WHO Europe Office. The WHO has called upon countries in the region to redouble their efforts and increase research in national laboratories in response to the inherent dangers current and newly discovered variants will present in the future. "Countries need to increase sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 viral isolates and report them. WHO also urges continuing and redoubling all of the basic public health and social measures that are known to work, including testing, isolating and treating cases, contact tracing, and quarantine for contacts of cases," the statement added. SEE ALSO; <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/policy/economy/news/how-big-is-indias-debt-and-should-it-be-a-worry/articleshow/80688623.cms">How big is India's debt and should it be a worry?</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/heres-why-you-arent-being-able-to-apply-for-brookfield-reit-ipo-through-zerodha-groww-angel-broking-and-other-stockbroking-apps/articleshow/80686457.cms">Here's why you aren't being able to apply for Brookfield REIT IPO through Zerodha, Groww and other stockbroking apps</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/analysts-explain-why-indigo-paints-shares-fell-with-a-thud-just-like-burger-king-and-mrs-bectors-and-what-to-do-with-it-now/articleshow/80704864.cms">Indigo Paints joins the league of Burger King and Bector's — frenzied IPOs that fizzled out</a>

COVID-19 variants could impact health systems, says World Health Officer

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Up to 50% of the <keyword id="8763838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19">COVID-19</keyword> deaths in Europe are associated with <keyword id="1760742" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Long-Term-Care">long-term care</keyword> facilities, according to the World Health Organization. </li><li>Hans Kluge, the WHO's regional European director, shared the data in Thursday's briefing.</li><li>Kluge said that long-term care has often been "abhorrently neglected." </li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>Up to half of the people who died of COVID-19 in Europe were residents of long-term care facilities, Hans Kluge, the WHO's regional European director, said on Thursday. The data, which does not include every European nation, was released Thursday <a href="https://twitter.com/WHO_Europe/status/1253247102869618688">during the WHO daily press briefing. </a>"This is an unimaginable human tragedy," Kluge said. "To the many who are experiencing this loss, my thoughts are with you." Residents of <keyword id="6365860" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="nursing-homes">nursing homes</keyword>, often those who are of advanced age and have underlying mental and physical illnesses, are at an elevated risk of being infected and suffering from complications related to COVID-19. Many nursing home residents have also gone without visits from their friends and family as lockdown orders are in place, adding more emotional toll on them, Kluge said.Still, even "the very old" and frail have a good chance of recovery, "if they are well cared for," Kluge said."This pandemic has shown a spotlight on the overlooked and undervalued in corners of all society," Kluge said. "Across the European region, long-term care has often been abhorrently neglected, but it should not be this way." Kluge went on to call those who work direct care in nursing homes the "unsung heroes of the pandemic" and note that they are stretched thin and underpaid. Despite many countries locking down their long-term care facilities early and preventing visitors, infections have still been spreading within them.Going forward, and in the post-COVID world, Kluge said that nursing homes need to empower care workers, change the environment they work in, and have comprehensive plans to prevent and control infections. "We much do all we can to ensure that those workers have personal protective equipment and other essential supplies to protect themselves and those they care for," Kluge said. Senior Emergency Officer for WHO Catherine Smallwood was asked whether the WHO recommends every resident and employee of a nursing home be tested for the <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword>. She said that at this time, the agency is recommending that all suspected cases be tested. Some countries are taking a broader approach to testing, she said, "but that needs to be carefully balanced with the countries testing capacity overall." The disproportionate deaths in the nursing home setting aren't isolated to Europe. The United States has also seen severe outbreaks in long-term care facilities around the country.Early on in the US infection, nearly 20 percent of all the US deaths were tied<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-coronavirus-deaths-at-nursing-homes-2020-4"> to a Seattle area nursing home. </a>Earlier this month, health officials discovered 17 bodies piled up in a small morgue of a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nursing-home-has-history-of-much-below-average-inspections-2020-4">New Jersey nursing home. </a>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/half-europes-covid-19-deaths-in-long-term-care-facilities-2020-4">Business Insider</a>

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