Al-Marsad newspaper: The World Health Organization has reiterated that there is no need for mass vaccination campaigns against monkeypox.
Today, Friday, a senior official in the organization stressed that the priority should be to contain monkeypox in countries where the disease is not endemic, saying that this can be achieved by taking rapid measures.
Sylvie Briand, director of the WHO’s Infectious Risk Preparedness Department, also made it clear in a briefing to member states at the organization’s annual assembly that if countries “take the right measures now, they can easily contain it,” according to Reuters.
The organization had also made it clear earlier that there was no need to panic, and to launch mass vaccination campaigns, after recording 131 confirmed cases of the disease, and 106 suspected cases in 19 countries around the world.
She also confirmed that it will not turn into an epidemic like the Corona virus, because there is a vaccine for it, calling on countries to be transparent by announcing infections if they occur.