Don't Know Enough About Monkeypox? WHO's 5 Guidelines

Monkeypox: While WHO has not recommended mass vaccination against the spreading virus, the agency shared guidelines on care, infection prevention and control.

As the risk of monkeypox increases in non-endemic countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) issued a warning on the spread of the zoonotic disease which has more than a thousand cases worldwide. What are the symptoms of #Monkeypox? Who is at risk and how can we protect ourselves? What is WHO's response? This and more.???? WHO's Dr.Rosamund Lewis, @PeopleDocGeneva, explains in Science in 5. pic.twitter.com/GFKgBaqPt6

"More than 1,000 confirmed cases of monkeypox have now been reported to WHO from 29 countries that are not endemic for the disease," World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, adding that no deaths had been reported globally so far from the outbreaks.

"The risk of monkeypox becoming established in non-endemic countries is real," the UN health agency head said.

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