World outcry over monkeypox, 15000 cases reported so far, WHO declared global health emergency

There is an outcry in the world about Monkeypox.  Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global health emergency on Saturday regarding this rare disease.  WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom gave information about this.  The World Health Organization has said that the spread of monkeypox in more than 70 countries is a global emergency.  Significantly, there are now about 15 thousand cases of monkeypox worldwide, while the United States, Britain, Canada and other countries have purchased millions of vaccines, while Africa has not received a single vaccine, where the more severe type of monkeypox is already 70.  Has killed more than one person.  Let us tell you that earlier, WHO had declared a state of emergency for Corona, Ebola, Zika virus.

WHO declares global health emergency

"For all of these reasons, I have decided that the global #monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern," says WHO DG Dr Tedros Adhanom pic.twitter.com/USzn5CIQE2 — ANI (@ANI) July 23, 2022

Because of this the declaration of global health emergency was made

 WHO Director-General Tedros said he made the announcement despite a lack of consensus among members of the Global Health Organization's emergency committee.  This is the first time the WHO chief has taken such action.  Tedros said, 'We are facing an epidemic that has spread rapidly around the world and we have very little information about this disease and it meets the qualification of international health regulation.  "I know it has not been an easy or straightforward process and therefore the committee members have different views," he said.

 WHO had called a meeting on Thursday

The WHO convened a second meeting within a week on Thursday to consider whether to declare monkeypox as a global crisis.  African officials said they were already treating the continent's pandemic as an emergency.  But some experts said it was unnecessary to declare a state of emergency over the presence of milder forms of monkeypox in Europe, North America and elsewhere, even if the virus could not be controlled.  Indeed, monkeypox has been present for decades in many parts of western and central Africa, where sick wild animals occasionally infect rural people.  But the disease has spread among gay and bisexual people in Europe, North America and elsewhere since at least May.

 Monkeypox graph growing in India too

At the same time, the risk of monkeypox is slowly increasing in India too.  So far, three cases of this disease have been reported in the country.  All three cases have come from Kerala.  Monkeypox infection has been confirmed in a 35-year-old youth who returned from the UAE in early July.  Actually, the youth of Malappuram had returned to his home state on 6th July and he has fever since 13th July.  Earlier, the second case of monkeypox in India was reported in Kannur district of Kerala.  On July 13, the infection was confirmed in a person who returned from Dubai to Kannur.  At the same time, the first patient of monkeypox in India was also found in Kerala.  Signs of infection were seen in a person who arrived in Kollam from UAE on 12 July.