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The World Health Organization expected that the outbreak of monkeypox “outside the continent of Africa” would not require the launch of mass vaccination campaigns, and that adopting strict personal hygiene measures would be a good option to control its spread.
Richard Peabody, who leads the "high threat pathogens" team at the World Health Organization in Europe, said in an interview with Reuters that the basic measures to control the outbreak are to trace and isolate cases, noting that it does not spread very easily and has not yet caused the emergence of disease. dangerous.
He warned that the vaccines used to combat monkeypox may have some serious side effects.
Peabody's comments came at a time when the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it was in the process of releasing doses of the "Genius" vaccine for use with cases of monkeypox, while the German government said it was studying available options regarding vaccinations, and Britain granted vaccinations to its workers in field of health care
Public health authorities in Europe and North America are currently investigating more than 100 suspected or confirmed cases of viral infection.
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