What has happened is a contagion that was not expected. Is it spreading faster than expected? The virologist and professor of microbiology explains that “these cases are accumulated cases, cases that have already been cured.
As for Spain, with 3,125 cases, the autonomous community with the highest number of cases is Madrid, after Catalonia and Andalusia. In the rest of the world there are 3,203 cases with the United States in the lead, followed by Canada and Brazil. Cases of monkeypox have skyrocketed, there are already more than 16,500 cases distributed in 75 countries and Europe concentrates 80% of the cases with Spain in the lead, followed by Germany, UK and France.
and adds: “There are 75 countries, of which Spain is the first, although they are accumulated cases since the first ones occurred, and what the WHO has done is announce the countries that have grade 1, 2, 3, or 4 and propose a series of common measures to control the outbreak”.
It must be taken into account that the alerts decreed by the WHO are so that the member countries have criteria when it comes to proceeding in the face of a greater number of cases and efforts are unified in the face of this new health situation,” explains virologist Raúl Ortiz de Lejarazu. Should we be concerned?: “We should be partially concerned. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared this Saturday an international health emergency, its highest level of alert, due to the current outbreak of monkeypox, which already has more than 16,000 cases (five of them fatal) in 75 countries, many of them in Europe, where the disease was not endemic.