US records more than 13,500 monkey chickenpox infections

The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported more than 13 thousand and 500 monkey chickenpox infections in the country.

• This number of cases has been monitored in 49 US states since the outbreak of the virus.

• Early this August, the US government declared monkeypox a "public health emergency", after a dramatic increase in the number of infections.

• The announcement would accelerate vaccine distribution

• provide treatments and provide federal resources to reduce the spread of monkeys in the United States.

New York state topped the number of monkey pox virus infections, followed by California and Illinois.

• The name chickenpox first emerged in 1958, when two smallpox-like infections occurred in colonies of research-preserved monkeys in Denmark.

• WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced nearly 7 thousand and 500 new monkey pox infections last week

• a 20% increase from the previous week.

Ghebreyesus, at a webinar hosted by the Swiss city of Geneva, said: 

• "Almost all cases are recorded in Europe and the Americas, and most of the cases are men who have sex with men."

• As of August 16, 36 thousand and 412 laboratory-confirmed cases of monkeys have been recorded around the world

• and 179 potential infections, including 12 deaths worldwide, according to global health.

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) stressed that "the primary focus of all countries must be to ensure that they are ready to confront monkey pox disease, and to stop transmission using effective public health tools."

"Vaccines may also play an important role in controlling the outbreak," Ghebreyesus said.

On Tuesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) stressed that the spread of monkey pox disease in the world was unrelated to monkeys, after these animals were reported to have been assaulted in Brazil.

She explained that the name chickenpox first came in 1958, when two chickenpox-like infections occurred in colonies of research monkeys in Denmark.

Symptoms of the disease appear in the form of fever, enlarged lymph nodes, muscle pain, sore throat, fatigue, chills, and chicken rashes similar to chickenpox on the hands, face, soles of the feet, genitals and other parts of the body.