The World Health Organization called the monkeypox outbreak 'containable' and has proposed creating a vaccine stockpile.
from the disease’s typical pattern of spread in central and western Africa, where people are mainly infected by animals like wild rodents and primates, and outbreaks haven’t spilled across borders.
Doctors in Britain, Spain, Portugal, Canada, the U.S. and elsewhere have noted that the majority of infections to date have been inThe disease is no more likely to affect people because of their sexual orientation and scientists warn the virus could infect others if transmission isn’t curbed. Still, she said WHO expected to see more cases reported in the future, noting “we don’t know if we are just seeing the peak of the iceberg if there are many more cases that are undetected in communities,” she said.
She said countries with vaccine supplies could consider them for those at high risk of the disease, like close contacts of patients or health workers, but that monkeypox could mostly be controlled by isolating contacts and continued epidemiological investigations.
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