Although the threat of a monkeypox (MPOX) outbreak remains, the World Health Organization decided to lift the international emergency due to the decrease in cases.

“The African Union, through its Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, maintains the continental alert” as a measure to protect the population.

The disease has affected more than 150,000 people since 2022, with at least 377 deaths. The announcement of the MPOX international emergency lifting was made on Friday, September 5, by the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, highlighting the decline in cases “in particularly affected countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.”

However, he emphasized that “the lifting of the emergency does not mean that the threat is over or that our response will stop.”

Monkeypox “was the second international emergency due to this viral disease that the WHO had declared, following the one it declared between 2022 and 2023. In that case, numerous cases also occurred in European and American countries, while this time the outbreaks were primarily limited to African nations.”

The WHO president insisted that this is not the time to reduce investment, collaboration, and solidarity, particularly in health care in the most affected countries on the African continent.

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Venezuela announced this Monday, August 19, the implementation of an epidemiological protocol at airports against monkeypox (mpox).

People entering the country must show a record of medical data that confirms their health status, particularly those travelers who come from countries where there is an outbreak of the disease.

As is known, monkeypox is an infectious disease that can cause “painful rashes, swollen glands and fever in those affected. It is transmitted by close skin-to-skin or skin-to-mucous membrane contact (such as saliva), especially all in sexual relations, or through contaminated objects and puncture wounds.”

The health authorities of Venezuela indicated that they have the medical, technological, scientific capacity, as well as the inter-institutional immediate response teams to promptly confront the situation and guarantee “the diagnosis, medical care, follow-up and monitoring required with the application of the recommendations issued by the WHO.

They added that they are in the process of acquiring the vaccine “which guarantees the strengthening of the epidemiological fence for population groups with high risk of exposure.”

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