Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) stressed that the epidemic monkey pox nothing to do with monkeys. This is related to a number of reports of massacres of these primates in Brazil.
“What people need to know is that the transmission that we’re seeing occurs only between humans,” WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said in Geneva. The Strait TimesThursday, August 10, 2022.
Harris insisted that primates were not to blame for the spike in cases of monkeypox in Brazil, after reports of physical assault and poison against monkeys continued to rise in South America.
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A number of local media have written details of attacks on monkeys in several Brazilian cities by using stones or poisoning them.
At the Rio de Preto nature reserve in the state of Sao Paulo, ten monkeys were found to have been poisoned or intentionally injured in less than a week, according to the G1 news report.
Globally, more than 28,100 cases and 12 deaths have been recorded amid a worldwide spike in monkeypox infections since May outside the West and Central African country where the disease has long been an epidemic in the country.
Currently, Brazil has recorded more than 1,700 cases with 1 death according to data attached by WHO.
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However, Harris underlined that despite the name of the disease (monkeypox), it does not mean monkeys are the cause of transmission of the disease and monkeys have no connection with the current outbreak.
The disease is called monkey pox…
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