The monkeypox virus may be mutating more than expected, according to researchers in Portugal, as cases rise across Britain and the US, and is detected for the first time in Taiwan and Colombia.
Authorities all over the world are tracking the evolution of the outbreak and expanding vaccination to more at-risk groups to try to contain the spread. More than 3300 cases have been reported globally.Colombia confirmed its first three cases in adults who had travelled from Europe and are now in quarantine, the country’s health ministry said on Friday. The Taiwanese government has also confirmed its first imported case, a man in his 20s who had studied in Germany.
The World Health Network, a global collaboration of scientific and citizen teams, declared it a pandemic on Thursday.The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, which is looking to expand the use of the monkeypox vaccine for children, said the virus was behaving as expected in the US. “We’re sequencing all specimens that we can get our hands on,” Gregory Armstrong, director of the CDC’s Office of Advanced Molecular Detection within the National Centre for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, said on Thursday. Thus far, the CDC was getting its specimens from public health labs, he said.
“All the evidence so far suggests the virus is behaving as we anticipated,” he said. “It’s much more stable than most viruses, and we don’t anticipate that it’s going to be mutating at the rate of SARS-CoV-2.”
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