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Monday, July 25, the WHO takes action against monkeypox by triggering the maximum alert. This epidemic has already affected 1,567 people in France.
Concern mounts as cases of monkeypox multiply on Monday July 25. The disease is recognizable by the rashes it causes on the skin, but that’s not all, since the epidemic also triggers fever in people who have contracted the virus. “It was as the symptoms got worse that I had a high fever”explains a lawyer who has been affected by the disease.
If monkeypox heals on its own after three weeks of illness, it is the contagiousness of the virus that concerns the WHO. “We We are in the presence of an epidemic which has spread rapidly throughout the world by new modes of transmission of which we know very little. For all these reasons, I have decided that the monkeypox epidemic represents a major emergency. international”, says a WHO doctor. A vaccine with an effectiveness measured at 85% exists, but vaccinations are not enough important because of lack of niche.
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