A senior World Health Organization (WHO) official said on May 23 that there was no evidence that the monkeypox virus had mutated.
Monkeypox tends not to mutate and is usually fairly stable, Rosamund Lewis, head of the WHO's smallpox team secretariat, said in a briefing.
While genome sequencing of cases will help understand the current outbreak, the virus is generally less likely to mutate, he said.
Maria van Kerkhove, WHO's director of emerging and zoonotic diseases and technical director of the new crown epidemic, said in an instant interaction with people on WHO's social media channels that so far fewer confirmed and suspected cases have been recorded. 200 cases.
This is a manageable situation, especially if outbreaks occur in places where the virus is not originally endemic, such as Europe and North America.
The WHO wants to stop human-to-human transmission of monkeypox, she said, "and we can do that in countries where the virus is not endemic."
The World Health Organization has said monkeypox is generally endemic in certain animal populations in some countries, occasionally infecting locals and travelers.
However, there have been cases of monkeypox in many countries and regions, which is atypical because it occurs in countries that are not endemic for monkeypox.
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