The World Health Organization(WHO) declared on Saturday that monkeypox is now a 'public health emergency of international concern' as cases continue to rise rapidly.
In an interview with Dave Ross on Seattle’s Morning News, Dr. Gordon Cohen MD explained that the WHO is now designating the disease as a global emergency mostly because of the large increase in the rate of spread.
This is the second global public health emergency the WHO has declared in two years, the last one being the COVID-19 pandemic.The monkeypox spread is not in danger of reaching the same levels of COVID-19, according to Dr. Cohen: the two are transmitted very differently. Monkeypox is quite similar to smallpox, a disease that was eradicated worldwide in 1980. Due to this similarity, the smallpox vaccine received by most Americans born before 1972 is still 80-85% effective.
“If you have these lesions on your skin, and they can be anywhere … they can leave fomites, or little particles of the virus on towels, bedsheets, things like that,” Dr. Cohen said. “So you can have just close contact with somebody, or close contact with the bedding of somebody who has the disease, and pick it up.”
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