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The World Health Organization (WHO) insisted on Tuesday that it recommends use of face masks only for healthcare personnel in contact with patients with opoxytitis and for those caring for them if they are outside the hospital.
A outbreak of a new subvariant of MPOX (clade Ib)infectious disease formerly known as monkeypoxwas declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with cases reported in other neighbouring countries and one in Europe.
IN There are 18,000 cases registered in the DRC.including suspects, this subvariant, which will spread more easily than the variant that has been circulating in this country for decades (clade Ia), and the one that caused an outbreak that spread to many countries in 2022 (treasure II).
This easier transmission has raised some alarm and concern about the risk of its spread, especially after it was revealed that About 30% of cases in the DRC occur in children under five years of age.
WHO representative Margaret Harris stressed that Transmission occurs by very close skin-to-skin contact with limited risk of transmission through aerosols. that fly out of the mouth a person infected with the virus, and only during a personal meeting with the sick person.
The organization calls on research centers to continue studying the genetic sequences of the virus to fully understand how it is transmitted.
EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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