He finds a slowdown in the spread of the virus.
The World Health Organization today described as “encouraging” signs of a slowdown in the spread of monkeypox in Europe, while calling for intensified efforts to eradicate the disease in the region.
“Some encouraging preliminary evidence, such as that seen in France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Britain and other countries, suggests that the epidemic may be slowing,” said the WHO director for Europe Hans Kluge during a press conference.
“We are heading in the right direction,” he noted. However “to move towards the elimination (of the disease) in our region, we must intensify our efforts immediately”.
Out of a total of 53 countries in the region, which includes Russia and countries in central Asia, more than 22,000 cases of monkeypox have been recorded in 43, a number that corresponds to more than a third of the global cases.
Last week the WHO announced a 21% drop in new cases of monkeypox worldwide, after four consecutive weeks of increases.
To eliminate the circulation of the virus in Europe, the WHO recommends maintaining surveillance measures, targeted vaccination, tracing the contacts of cases and informing the community of gay men, where the virus seems to circulate mainly.
Kluge specifically referred to the example of Portugal, where “in the absence of a vaccination campaign, we managed to reduce the increase in the number of cases thanks to changing behavior and informing communities.”
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