More than 80 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in at least 12 countries.

The World Health Organization has said another 50 suspected cases are being investigated - without naming any countries - and warned that more cases are likely to be reported.

Infections have been confirmed in nine European countries, as well as the US, Canada and Australia.

Monkeypox is most common in remote parts of Central and West Africa.

It is a rare viral infection which is usually mild and from which most people recover in a few weeks, according to the UK's National Health Service.

The virus does not spread easily between people and the risk to the wider public is said to be very low.

There is no specific vaccine for monkeypox, but a smallpox jab offers 85% protection since the two viruses are quite similar.

So far, public health agencies in Europe have confirmed cases in the UK, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Sweden.

In a statement on Friday, the WHO said that the recent outbreaks "are atypical, as they are occurring in non-endemic countries".

It said it was "working with the affected countries and others to expand disease surveillance to find and support people who may be affected".

The WHO also warned against stigmatising groups because of the disease.

"It can be a barrier to ending an outbreak as it may prevent people from seeking care, and lead to undetected spread," it said.

WHO's Europe regional director Hans Kluge warned that "as we enter the summer season... with mass gatherings, festivals and parties, I am concerned that transmission could accelerate".

He added that all but one of the recent cases had no relevant travel history to areas where monkeypox was endemic.

The first case of the disease in the UK was reported on 7 May. The patient had recently travelled to Nigeria, where they are believed to have caught the virus before travelling to England, the UK Health Security Agency said.

There are now 20 confirmed cases in the UK, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said on Friday.

Authorities in the UK said they had bought stocks of the smallpox vaccine and started offering it to those with "higher levels of exposure" to monkeypox.

Spanish health authorities have also reportedly purchased thousands of smallpox jabs to deal with the outbreak, according to Spanish newspaper El País.

Australia's first case was detected in a man who fell ill after travelling to the UK, the Victorian Department of Health said.

In North America, health authorities in the US state of Massachusetts confirmed that a man has been infected after recently travelling to Canada. He was in "good condition" and "poses no risk to the public", officials said.

Source:https://www.bbc.com/news/health-61532083

Monkey pox again

More like Gorilla � pox

Na so e dey start ooh.

Soon another lock down.

Una say we benefit wetin from this white imperialist again??

This time around let's hold US responsible

I hope this won't be the case of corona virus

I hope say China no follow? If e enta there na another worldwide lockdown

hmmmmm

Another global lockdown loading

Be like say Bill Gates and his Satanic Group wan start another round of their SQUID Games once more.

it's symptoms and signs are headache, skin rash, fever, body aches, chills, swollen lymph nodes, and exhaustion but presently there's no proven treatment for it specifically, but the smallpox vaccine, antivirals, and vaccinia immune globulin can be used. no cases yet in my dear Country 9ja.

monkey pox wey done dey since before covid-1

Wahala... From COVID to monkeypox

Na wa o

They always find a way to link back their misfortunes to Africa..

It's as if Africa is the land of no good.


When any misfortune happens,they quickly find a way to dump it on us

News tire person these days�

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Ironically, the ministry of health, NCDC and other relevant health agencies in Nigeria, would celebrate and pop champagne on getting wind of this news.

The male among them gonna have massive erection. The female among gonna be so wet. This news made it possible.

Ebola was sweet. Covid19 was sweeter and monkey pox

God airpus...

Is not monkeypox is Bill Gates pox

As usual, I was expecting them (the Brits) to link it to an African country.

Una don start abi...

Omo

Godforbid!

Say the first case travelled to Nigeria where he seems to have contacted it, yet we have not recorded any case in Nigeria..

And why are the media houses using a Blackman picture to report the case when no single case has been reported in Africa? Wetin dey do these people?

Soon they ll say it came from africa.