INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The head of the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a global health emergency on Saturday. UN health agency Director-General
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the announcement after the WHO&s expert committee couldn''t reach a consensus on whether to apply the
highest level of alert to the virus.The &global emergency& designation may help spur more investment in combatting the disease amid a
scramble for scarce vaccines, USA Today reported. There is &a clear risk of further international spread,& Ghebreyesus said in a
statement.So in short, we have an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly, through new modes of transmission, about which we
understand too little,& he said. … For all of these reasons, I have decided that the global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health
emergency of international concern.Symptoms of the disease begin to appear seven to 14 days after exposure and include fever, muscle aches,
exhaustion and a rash that can appear on the body. So far, monkeypox deaths have only been reported in Africa, where a more dangerous
version of the virus is spreading.Last month, 3,040 monkeypox cases had been reported in 47 countries
Since then, the outbreak has ballooned to more than 16,000 reported cases in more than 70 countries. In the meantime, the officials of
Ministry of Public Health in Afghanistan have said about the preparation of the Ministry to prevent this virus, saying that no positive
sample of this virus has been registered in the country so far.In addition, this ministry said that it would quarantine suspicious people at
the borders of the country.We have our own measures to prevent this virus, and most of these cases are transmitted as a result of travel,
and we have considered appropriate quarantine places for infected people,& said Sharafat Zaman, a spokesperson for the
health ministry.The post WHO chief says monkeypox is now a global emergency first appeared on Ariana News.
