Argentina has confirmed the first monkeypox virus death in the country. The death was reported from Argentina’s big, cosmopolitan capital city of Buenos Aires. The person who died was in critical condition since September but died just now.
Canada has confirmed that the monkeypox cases in the country have risen to 1444 including. Monkeypox is still threatening the majority of the countries in the world, with more than 109 countries reporting the virus. Monkeypox virus has been quite low in Canada in the recent weeks with only 9 reported cases in the past week.
Infectious Diseases specialists have ruled out the claim that Monkeypox is a sexually transmitted disease among Gay Men only. The claim has been classified as wrong and unscientific. Recently Infectious disease specialists told USA TODAY that Monkeypox can infect anyone and the assumption that it only infects specifically gay men is wrong and based upon unsound reasoning.
According to US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf on Thursday, the US administration is thinking about changing the way doctors administer the monkeypox vaccination to maximize the amount of stock on hand.
On Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a state of emergency in response to the quickly growing monkeypox outbreak, becoming the third state in America to do so.
The World Health Organization has declared the growing monkeypox outbreak the ‘Public Health Emergency of International Concern’-the highest alert level. The designation means that the WHO now sees monkeypox as an important enough threat to global health that a coordinated international response is required to prevent the further spreading of the virus and its escalation into a pandemic.
Reports of MonkeyPox are multiplying around the world and the United States. Worldwide, there have been over 10,000 cases reported of viral illness, including more than 1,400 in the U.S. alone. And so far, mass vaccination efforts in early hot spots like New York City have been stymied by website crashes and low supply.
Researchers investigating the genetic make-up of the MonkeyPox virus have said the virus appears to have mutated far, far more than would normally be expected and has undergone a period of “accelerated evolution”. So far 50 new mutations of the MonkeyPox Virus have been found.
If you thought the COVID-19 outbreak was over and now it’s time to relax about health safety measure, think again. A new virus called the Monkeypox is spreading rapidly through the US, Europe, and Australia.
