The Government of the United States will not renew the health emergency decreed in August for monkey smallpox when it expires next 30 of January
, given the large drop in cases and the increase in vaccination among the population.
Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services of the United States, announced in a statement that the emergency will not be renewed, after the smallpox of the monkey has infected in the country some 000, people and caused the death of 29 of them.
The weekly cases of monkeypox, which this week has been renamed ” mpox” by the World Health Organization (WHO), are already 100% less than at the peak of the disease in the middle of this year , said the director general of the organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
“Contagions continue to drop, with sun or 400 registered this week”, the head of the WHO said at a press conference, who stressed that a good part of the new cases are being detected in Latin America .
In this year’s outbreak, which was declared an international health emergency by the WHO, more than 90, cases (59 of them fatal) in more than a hundred countries, the most affected being the USA (15,15 positive), Brazil (15,), Spain (7,400), France (4,400) and Colombia (3,800).
The WHO announced on Monday that it would refer to the disease with the name of “mpox”, to try to avoid racist or stigmatizing comments in relation to the disease such as those that have circulated on the internet this year.
However, the organis mo agreed to continue recognizing the term “monkey pox” as a synonym for one year.
With information from EFE
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