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2″ June 2022″ Aljazeera”
The monkeypox virus has been around for years. But recently, there have been hundreds of cases in countries where it is not usually found. What is going on?
Since the United Kingdom first reported a confirmed monkeypox case on May 7, more than 550 confirmed cases of the disease have been verified in 30 countries outside of the west and central African nations where it is endemic, the WHO said
The United Nations health agency’s top monkeypox expert Rosamund Lewis said that the appearance of so many cases across much of Europe and other countries where it has not been seen before “is clearly a cause for concern, and it does suggest undetected transmission for a while”.
“We don’t know if it is weeks, months or possibly a couple for years,” she said, adding that “we don’t really know if it is too late to contain”.
Monkeypox is related to smallpox, which killed millions around the world every year before it was eradicated in 1980.
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