🇸🇪🦠 First monkeypox case outside of Africa was recorded in Sweden, one day after the WHO declared a global health emergency.

The patient discovered to be infected happened to have been in one of the affected areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Swedish public health agency said that the strain found in the infected patient is more deadly than the strain which affected thousands of homosexual men two years ago and it can spread from human to human without sexual contact.

🔗 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gqr5lrpwxo

🦠World Health Organization:

Monkeypox virus is spreading faster than before.

🦠 World Health Organization is requesting lockdowns worldwide to avoid another covid

🦠 So far in 2024, 17,541 mpox cases have been reported in twelve African countries, with 517 fatalities, according to data from the African Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

🦠 However, the WHO assures that only in the Democratic Republic of the Congo the number of deaths exceeds 500 and the authorities of that country have recognized 548 deaths, the AFP agency reported.