LONDON: The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that the number of cases of monkeypox worldwide has risen to 1,285.
According to media reports, the WHO confirmed last weekend that in addition to the African region, monkeypox has spread to 30 countries around the world and its cases are increasing rapidly.
By the end of last week, the number of cases of monkeypox had reached 1285 in nearly 30 countries around the world, but fortunately not a single death has been reported so far.
According to the report, Spain, Germany, Canada and the United Kingdom are among the countries most affected by monkeypox, while 104 men were diagnosed with monkey pox a day earlier.
The British Ministry of Health confirmed that all the newly reported cases were in men who were attracted to homosexuality. However, the World Health Organization has made it clear that there is no chance of it becoming an epidemic. Monkeypox is transmitted from one person to another only through close relationships and especially physical contact.
Monkeypox was originally a disease of monkeys that spread to the western part of Africa after the 1970s and continued to spread there for decades. This is the first time that cases of skin disease in Central Africa since the 1970s have been reported in regions such as the United States and Europe, leading to speculation that the potentially spreading monkeypox may have changed.
However, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that so far there is no evidence that the disease, which spreads from the United States to Europe, has changed. According to experts, monkeypox is usually found only in the African region and for decades no cases of the disease have been reported in any other region.
