Last month, a leading adviser to WHO said the outbreak in Europe and beyond was likely spread by sex at two recent rave parties in Spain and Belgium. It said controlling the disease relies primarily on measures like surveillance, tracking cases and isolating patients. health agency does not recommend mass vaccination, but advises the “judicious” use of vaccines. “We don’t want to wait until the situation is out of control to start calling the emergency committee.” But it doesn’t mean that we are going straight to a public health emergency of international concern,” he said, referring to WHO’s highest level of alert for viral outbreaks. “With the advice from the emergency committee, we can be in a better position to control the situation. Ibrahima Soce Fall, WHO’s emergencies director for Africa, said case counts were growing every day and health officials face “many gaps in terms of knowledge of the dynamics of the transmission” - both in Africa and beyond. The meeting of outside experts could also help improve understanding and knowledge about the virus, Tedros said, as WHO released new guidelines about vaccinating against monkeypox.ĭr. British scientists said last week they could not tell if the spread of the disease in the U.K. said Monday it had 470 cases of monkeypox across the country, with the vast majority in gay or bisexual men.
