More than 41,000 cases and 12 deaths from monkeypox have been reported in 96 countries, with the majority of cases in the United States, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
The WHO declared the outbreak a global health emergency in July.
The number of reported cases globally declined by 21% in the week ended Aug. 21, following a month-long trend of rising infections, according to the WHO’s latest epidemiological report.
“There are signs that the outbreak is waning in Europe, where a combination of effective public health measures, behavior change and vaccination are helping to prevent transmission,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference. .
Still, more than a dozen countries have seen an increase in the number of weekly cases, with the biggest growth reported in the United States. More than 34% of the current global case count is in the United States.
The WHO said infections in the Americas region showed “a continuous and sharp increase” in the previous week.
According to data from the Ministry of Health, until this Wednesday (24) Brazil had already accumulated 4,144 cases of monkeypox. The epidemiological bulletin released by the ministry reported that 160 new cases of the disease were recorded in the last 24 hours. São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are the states with the most cases: 2,640 and 508, respectively.
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