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The <keyword id="7616951" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="monkeypox" source="Orion">monkeypox</keyword> virus may be spreading 'undetected', said the <keyword id="6356311" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="world-health-organisation" source="Orion">World Health Organisation</keyword> even as the global confirmed cases rise to more than 550 from 30 countries that are not endemic to the virus. While, so far, most cases have been reported among men who have sex with men presenting with symptoms at sexual health clinics, "the sudden appearance of monkeypox in many countries at the same time suggests there may have been undetected transmission for some time," said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in a statement. The virus may have been transmitted for months or years undetected though investigations are ongoing and there are clear no answers yet, added Dr. <keyword id="2965100" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="rosamund-lewis" source="Orion">Rosamund Lewis</keyword>, the WHO's monkeypox technical lead, during a news conference in Geneva. "We don't really know whether it's too late to contain. What WHO and all member states are trying to do is prevent onward spread," <keyword id="873" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="lewis" source="Orion">Lewis</keyword> said. Contact tracing and isolating patients who have monkeypox are crucial to stopping the spread, she said. Earlier the WHO had refuted the need to avoid LGBTQ+ parades, as the virus itself is not a sexually transmitted infection, which are generally spread through semen and vaginal fluids. "These communities are working hard to inform their members about the risks of monkeypox, and prevent transmission," Ghebreyesus said, adding the need to "work hard to fight stigma". He noted that stigma against the LGBTQ+ community could "prevent infected individuals from seeking care, making it harder to stop transmission". The global health body has also urged affected countries to widen their surveillance, to look for cases in the broader community. Monkeypox has not previously been described as a sexually transmitted infection, but it can be passed on by direct contact during sex. Anyone can be infected with monkeypox if they have close physical contact with someone else who is infected. "The situation is evolving, and we expect that more cases will continue to be found," the WHO chief said. While monkeypox symptoms resolve on their own, it "can also be severe in some cases". Ghebreyesus said that the WHO is working to provide accurate information to those groups most at risk of monkeypox; to prevent further spread among at-risk groups; to protect frontline health workers; as well as to advance understanding of this disease. Meanwhile, even as some countries are racing to stockpile smallpox vaccines against monkeypox, the WHO has not recommended mass vaccination. But, the WHO is working with companies to increase access to those new vaccines and treatments, Lewis said. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/corporates/news/rakesh-jhunjhunwalas-delta-corp-stock-lost-more-than-a-third-of-its-value-in-two-months/articleshow/91957129.cms">Rakesh Jhunjhunwala’s gamble on this stock is proving to be a bust after it slips 20% in a month</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="http://www.businessinsider.in/business/auto/news/top-selling-cars-in-india-in-may-2022-maruti-tata-and-hyundai-cars-in-top-10/slidelist/91956448.cms">6 out of 10 top selling cars in India in May 2022 are from Maruti Suzuki</a>

Monkeypox caseload rises over 550 from 30 countries: WHO

It may be too early to say whether the recent <keyword id="7616951" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="monkeypox" source="Orion">monkeypox</keyword> outbreak, which has spread to 24 nations with over 435 confirmed cases, could lead to a global pandemic, the <keyword id="43588" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="world-health-organization" source="Orion">World Health Organization</keyword> (WHO) has said. The global health body, however, noted that there is a "window" of opportunity to curb rising cases, <keyword id="51916" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="cnbc" source="Orion">CNBC</keyword> reported. According to the WHO, there are "still many unknowns" related to the spike in cases in non-endemic countries outside of <keyword id="12925" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="africa" source="Orion">Africa</keyword>. It said the virus should not be mistaken for Covid-19 and that the risks to the general public remain low, the report said. "We don't want people to panic or be afraid and think that it's like Covid or maybe worse," Sylvie Briand, the WHO's director of epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention, said during a briefing on the outbreak. "This monkeypox disease is not Covid-19, it is a different virus," she added. While health experts are not clear about the genetic makeup of the virus, current data suggests that it doesn't transmit or mutate as easily as other viruses like Covid-19, an RNA virus. "At the moment, we are not concerned about a global pandemic," WHO's technical lead for monkeypox, <keyword id="2965100" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="rosamund-lewis" source="Orion">Rosamund Lewis</keyword>, was quoted as saying. However, she noted that rising individual cases were a cause for concern as it could allow the virus to "exploit a niche" and transmit more easily between people. The virus has for the first time manifested in gay and bisexual men. Though the virus is not defined as a sexually transmitted disease, <keyword id="873" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="lewis" source="Orion">Lewis</keyword> urged men who have sex with other men to be aware. "Collectively, the world has an opportunity to stop this outbreak. There is a window," Lewis said.

Too early to predict if monkeypox could become the next global pandemic: WHO

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A new strain of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/er-doctor-monkeypox-patients-are-getting-misdiagnosed-with-other-conditions-2022-8">monkeypox virus</a> is "the most dangerous" yet and could be a global threat, experts say.</li><li>The new clade Ib virus emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and spread to Rwanda's border.</li></ul>A deadly and fast-spreading new strain of mpox, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/monkeypox-pictures-patient-shares-images-describes-intense-pain-2022-8">the disease caused by the monkeypox virus</a>, has global health officials ringing alarm bells.The new virus is "undoubtedly the most dangerous of all the known strains of mpox," John Claude Udahemuka, a lecturer at the University of Rwanda, said in a press briefing on June 25. He said the virus has caused miscarriages and blindness.An earlier, milder form of mpox — called clade IIb — circulated worldwide in 2022, ultimately <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-the-us-handled-its-first-ever-monkeypox-outbreak-2022-5">infecting more than 32,000 people in the US</a> and killing 58 of them. It prompted the World Health Organization to declare a public health emergency, which ended last year.The new virus is called clade Ib, since it's a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/woman-hiv-had-coronavirus-216-days-virus-mutated-2021-6">mutation</a> of an even earlier form of mpox. It first appeared in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in September and has spread to towns along the Rwanda border, near Burundi and Uganda.The new clade Ib virus could cause a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bird-flu-avian-influenza-outbreak-us-h5n1-wiping-out-everything-2023-4">global outbreak</a>, experts fear, though they stopped short of warning of a pandemic."The pandemic question is difficult," Trudie Lang, director of the Global Health Network at Oxford University, said in the briefing."I think we need to be really vigilant now and move to try and contain this as quickly as possible in this region," she added. "There's definitely the opportunity for this to get on an airplane."<h2 id="ef566fbb-abea-4b10-aabf-9d64faaf238f">The new mpox strain spreads easily </h2>Mpox spreads through close contact, especially skin-to-skin contact. It can cause flu-like symptoms and a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/monkeypox-rash-pictures-when-to-get-checked-2022-5">painful or itchy rash</a> that develops into puss-filled blisters, lesions, and eventually scabs.<div type="image" title="Monkeypox palm of hands" height="459" width="700" msid="111468793" hostid="261" sizebytes="24580"></div><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/monkeypox-man-hospitalized-couldnt-swallow-spit-feared-death-symptoms-2022-7">Previous strains of the virus</a> have had limited transmission abilities. The clade I virus that's long circulated in the DRC has been mostly associated with spread through families and within households, Land said. The clade IIb virus that went global was mostly sexually transmitted and mostly affected men who have sex with men.The new clade Ib strain seems to do it all.It began spreading through sexual transmission, via the local sex work industry, according to the researchers. However, they said the new virus has also spread within households, between mothers and their children, and there have even been cases of person-to-person spread outside households and without sexual contact.That's "incredibly worrying," Lang said. That's because it has more opportunities to spread than previous strains did.The clade I form of the virus, from which the new strain has emerged, is also more deadly than clade II. According to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/mpox/about/index.html">WHO</a>, some outbreaks have killed up to 10% of sick people.<h2 id="b8b424dd-af4a-4193-a5ac-002f109faf5a">Researchers only see 'the tip of the iceberg'</h2>It's not yet clear just how deadly the new clade Ib virus is, because researchers aren't sure how many cases there are.Leandre Murhula Masirika, a research coordinator in the local DRC health department, said in the briefing that they had identified more than 600 cases so far."These are the severe cases that make it to hospital, so this will be the tip of the iceberg," Lang said.The WHO's technical lead for mpox, Rosamund Lewis, also raised the alarm last week, saying "There is a critical need to address the recent surge in mpox cases in Africa," according to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/who-scientists-warn-mpox-strain-congo-2024-06-25/">Reuters</a>.The researchers said they need to better understand the virus to identify the right safety measures and vaccines to contain its spread."We need to first carry out studies of serology and immunology in order to see what kind of vaccination we can propose," Murhula Masirika said.He added that, in the meantime, he wants to give the smallpox vaccine to local sex workers and healthcare workers in hopes that it will confer some immunity to mpox.

Experts are racing to contain 'the most dangerous' monkeypox virus yet before it causes a global outbreak

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The <keyword id="6366244" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="who" source="Orion">WHO</keyword> said it's not concerned about a <keyword id="13900629" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="monkeypox" source="Orion">monkeypox</keyword> <keyword id="11896136" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="pandemic" source="Orion">pandemic</keyword> 'at the moment.'</li><li>WHO officials said they think the outbreak is still containable at this stage. </li></ul>The <keyword id="11897163" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="world-health-organization" source="Orion">World Health Organization</keyword> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PUW9hfS-Gw">has said</a> the monkeypox outbreak is unlikely to lead to a global pandemic, but that it was too soon to rule it out completely.Sylvie Briand, the WHO's director of epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention, and Rosamund Lewis, a monkeypox expert and technical officer at WHO's headquarters, made the comments during an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PUW9hfS-Gw">online briefing on Monday.</a>Lewis said about the chance of a monkeypox pandemic: "We don't know, but we don't think so.""At the moment we are not concerned of a global pandemic," she said. "But we don't have the answers to this question yet." Briand said that "there are still many unknowns" about the spread of monkeypox and that "the situation is evolving and changing very rapidly."Briand said monkeypox did not pose the same risk as Covid-19 because it was not as transmissible and "it is a disease we know already.""What we are seeing right now is a very unusual situation," she added. "But we still think this outbreak is containable."Monkeypox is a <a href="https://www.insider.com/monkeypox-symptoms-cases-europe-uk-spain-portugal-2022-5">rare disease</a> that can cause painful, infectious boils. The virus usually appears in Central or West Africa but has suddenly started spreading in more countries.Officials have expressed concern about the spread of monkeypox that has not been linked to travel to endemic countries. The UK had identified <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/monkeypox-cases-confirmed-in-england-latest-updates">179 cases of monkeypox as of Monday</a> while the US has reported <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/index.html">15 cases of the disease.</a>"Most of the new cases of monkeypox however are now being reported in non-endemic countries," Lewis said. "Most of the cases know that we have do not have any links to travel." Monkeypox is caused by a virus similar to the one that causes smallpox, a disease that was eradicated more than 40 years ago. Early symptoms of monkeypox include fever, headache, swollen lymph nodes, and chills. A rash later appears and the <keyword id="6367322" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="illness" source="Orion">illness</keyword> usually lasts between two and four weeks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises people with these symptoms to contact their <keyword id="11897506" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="healthcare" source="Orion">healthcare</keyword> provider.

WHO says it's not concerned about a monkeypox pandemic at the moment, but it's too soon to rule it out completely

The current outbreak of the <keyword id="7616951" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="monkeypox" source="Orion">monkeypox</keyword> virus is primarily spreading through sex among men, the <keyword id="43588" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="world-health-organization" source="Orion">World Health Organization</keyword> (WHO) has said, adding that the virus is "containable". First reported on May 7 in the UK, monkeypox has rapidly spread to over a dozen countries, where the virus is typically not found unlike some countries in Central and West <keyword id="12925" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="africa" source="Orion">Africa</keyword>, with about 200 confirmed and suspected cases. So far no-associated deaths have been reported. The WHO has warned that the infection is likely to spread to more nations even as it expands surveillance. It further said that the identification of confirmed and suspected cases of monkeypox with no direct travel links to an endemic area "represents a highly unusual event". "We've seen a few cases in <keyword id="28249" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="europe" source="Orion">Europe</keyword> over the last five years, just in travellers, but this is the first time we're seeing cases across many countries at the same time in people who have not travelled to the endemic regions in Africa," Rosamund Lewis, who runs the WHO's smallpox research, said in a Q&amp;A live streamed on the health body's social media channels. While the virus itself is not a sexually transmitted infection, which are generally spread through semen and vaginal fluids, the most recent surge in cases appears to have been spread among men who have sex with other men, WHO officials said, emphasising that anyone can contract monkeypox, the <keyword id="51916" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="cnbc" source="Orion">CNBC</keyword> reported. "Many diseases can be spread through sexual contact. You could get a cough or a cold through sexual contact, but it doesn't mean that it's a sexually transmitted disease," Andy Seale, who advises the WHO on HIV, hepatitis and other sexually transmitted infections, was quoted as saying. Monkeypox has not previously been described as a sexually transmitted infection, but it can be passed on by direct contact during sex. Further, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) noted that the likelihood of spread is very low for the broader population, BBC reported. But, the transmission is majorly occurring "through close contact for example during sexual activities amongst persons with multiple sexual partners is considered to be high", Andrea Ammon of the ECDC, was quoted as saying. The WHO also noted that monkeypox can be contained in countries outside of Africa where the virus is not usually detected. "This is a containable situation," the WHO's emerging disease lead Maria Van Kerkhove said at a news conference on Monday. "We want to stop human-to-human transmission. We can do this in non-endemic countries," she added, referring to recent cases in Europe and North America. Despite being the largest outbreak outside of Africa in 50 years, monkeypox does not spread easily between people and experts say the threat is not comparable to the coronavirus pandemic. "Transmission is really happening from skin-to-skin contact, most of the people who have been identified have more of a mild disease," Van Kerkhove said. The WHO added that there was no evidence the monkeypox virus had mutated, following earlier speculation over the cause of the current outbreak. Viruses in this group "tend not to mutate and they tend to be fairly stable," said Lewis. Experts have also suggested that countries should review the availability of the smallpox vaccine which is also effective against monkeypox.

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