WHO MASK RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MONKEYPOX

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that recommends that masks be used only by medical personnel in contact with patients with Ompox and for caregivers of them, if they are outside the hospital.

Outbreak of a new subvariant of mpox (clade Ib) – an 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 reported in the DRC, including suspected cases of this more easily spreading sub-variant. than the variant that has been circulating in this country for decades (clade Ia) and the one that caused the epidemic outbreak that spread to many countries in 2022 (clade II).

This is a simpler transmission raises some concerns and worries about the risk of its spreadespecially after I found out that About 30% of cases in the DRC occur in children under five years of age.

WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris stressed that transmission occurs through very close contact, skin to skin, with limited risk of transmission through aerosols released from the mouth of a person infected with the virus, and only through direct contact with the patient.

The organization calls on research centers to continue study of the genetic sequences of the virus to fully understand how it is transmitted.